python threading

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1018978678.13870.python-list at python.org>,
Justin Sheehy  <justin at iago.org> wrote:
>
>Unless I'm misunderstanding the question, threading.Event is the answer.
>
>I've wrapped Queues with Events before, and it makes things a little
>nicer.  It is quite straightforward to make a Queue that exposes a
>get method that will simply block until an Event is set by another
>thread or an optional timeout has elapsed.
>
>It doesn't solve the whole problem, but waiting on an Event is much
>nicer than a get/sleep loop.

Nicer how?  A timed-out Event *is* a get/sleep loop, and if you're not
using a timed-out Event, the blocking Queue.get() should suffice.
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