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[Christoph Becker-Freyseng]

Hi,

You can also use threading.Condition()
This is useful for having some max. time and additionaly being able t 
start processing earlier again via cond.notify()

Christoph Becker-Freyseng



Rolf Wester wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an application that starts a second thread, that receives 
> messages via a socket-server and puts that messages into a queue. The 
> main thread is polling that queue for new messages. My problem is that 
> the main thread takes to much of the time polling the empty queue while 
> the socket-server thread doesn't get enough time for receiving the 
> messages. Is it possible to force the main threat to sleep for a certain
> amount of time or give the socket-server thread a higher priority?
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Rolf Wester
>