[Python-Dev] Autoloading? (Making Queue.Queue easier to use)

[Aahz]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> 
>> I see no need. Code that *doesn't* need Queue but does use threading
>> shouldn't have to pay for loading Queue.py.

I'd argue that such code is rare enough (given the current emphasis on
Queue) that the performance issue doesn't matter.

> However, it does seem awkward to have a whole module providing
> just one small class that logically is so closely related to other
> threading facilities.

The problem is that historically Queue did not use ``threading``; it was
built directly on top of ``thread``, and people were told to use Queue
regardless of whether they were using ``thread`` or ``threading``.
Obviously, there is no use case for putting Queue into ``thread``, so off
it went into its own module.  At this point, my opinion is that we should
leave reorganizing the thread stuff until Python 3.0.  (Python 3.0
should "deprecate" ``thread`` by renaming it to ``_thread``).
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