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

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Oct 13 19:08:17 CEST 2005

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005, skip at pobox.com wrote:

Given your list of stuff to go in a threadtools module, I still think you need something to hold Lock, RLock, Condition and Semaphore. See my previous post (subject: Threading and synchronization primitives) about a threadutils module to hold these somewhat lower-level sync primitives. In most cases I don't think programmers need them. OTOH, providing some higher level abstractions seems to make sense. (I have to admit I have no idea what a QueueThread's outbox queue would be used for. Queues are generally multi-producer, single-consumer objects. It makes sense for a thread to have an inbox. I'm not so sure about an outbox.)

If you look at my thread tutorial, the spider thread pool uses a single-producer, multiple-consumer queue to feed URLs to the retrieving threads.

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