On Dec 27, 2019, at 19:48, Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> wrote:
So, ya, I've seen and implemented lots of work queues along these lines - but an OrderedSet would be an "attractive nuisance" (offhandedly appearing to solve a problem it doesn't actually address):
jobs = some_kind_of_queue() finished_jobs = set() ... while jobs: job = jobs.get() if job in finished_jobs: continue try: work on the job possibly adding (sub)jobs to the `jobs` queue except TransientExceptions: jobs.put(job) # try again later else: finished_jobs.add(job)
Well, if an OrderedSet were designed to gracefully handle resizes during iteration, something like this may make sense: jobs = OrderedSet(initial_jobs) for job in jobs: new_jobs = process(job) jobs |= new_jobs ... # jobs is now a set of every job processed A dictionary with None values comes close if you replace the union line with a jobs.update(new_jobs) call (and ignore resizing issues), but it breaks because repeated jobs are shuffled to the end of the sequence and would be processed again. Brandt