[Python-Dev] threadtools (was Re: Autoloading? (Making Queue.Queue easier to use)) (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 12:46:42 CEST 2005

skip at pobox.com wrote:

Guido> At some level, Queue is just an application of threading, while Guido> the threading module provides the basic API ...

While Queue is built on top of threading Lock and Condition objects, it is a highly useful synchronization mechanism in its own right, and is almost certainly easier to use correctly (at least for novices) than the lower-level synchronization objects the threading module provides. If threading is the "friendly" version of thread, perhaps Queue should be considered the "friendly" synchronization object. (I'm playing the devil's advocate here. I'm fine with Queue being where it is.)

If we don't make Queue a part of the basic threading API (and I think Guido is right that it doesn't need to be), then I suggest we create a threadtools module.

So the thread-related API would actually have three layers:

Initially threadtools would just contain Queue, but other candidates for inclusion in the future might be standard implementations of:

Cheers, Nick.

P.S. PeriodicTimer would be a variant of threading Timer which simply replaces the run method with: def run(): while 1: self.finished.wait(self.interval) if self.finished.isSet(): break self.function(*self.args, **self.kwds)

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