On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 15:53:17 -0500, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gwyn Evans wrote: > > Hi, > > New to Python, but with Java background I'm interested in > > comments/suggestions for something I'm trying... > > > > I've got a series of events (basically a dictionary of a few > > key:value pairs) which I'd like to forward onto a web service. That > > should be no problem, but I'm investigating what I can do when the web > > service is down for a bit. > > What I'm considering is to persist the event and trigger a seperate > > thread to retry the forwarding. What I'm wondering about is if > > there's a storage method that allows 1 thread writing to the storage > > while the other thread reads and then deletes from the storage... > > Do you need to allow for the sending thread to be restarted as well? In other > words, does the queue > have to be persistent? If not, you could use Queue.Queue which is intended > for this kind of > inter-thread communication.
Ideally, yes, although the main issue I was concerned about with Queue.Queue was that I didn't want to be be limited by memory size... I guess the final fallback would be going straight to a full-blown DB with a connection from each thread, but I'm not sure if it's a bit over the top... /Gwyn _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
