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

[Nick Coghlan]

john.m.camara at comcast.net wrote:
> It sounds like he feels Queue should just be part of threading but queues
> can be used in other contexts besides threading.  So having separate
> modules is a good thing.

If threads aren't involved, you should use "collections.deque" directly, 
rather than going through "Queue.Queue". The latter jumps through a lot of 
hoops in order to be thread-safe.

This confusion is one of the reasons I have a problem with the current name of 
the Queue module.

Cheers,
Nick.

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