Queue.Queue-like class without the busy-wait

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 2005-03-24, Paul L. Du Bois schreef <polytope at gmail.com>:
> Has anyone written a Queue.Queue replacement that avoids busy-waiting?
> It doesn't matter if it uses os-specific APIs (eg
> WaitForMultipleObjects).  I did some googling around and haven't found
> anything so far.

I started once, using the Timer class in the Threading Module to
break the lock. However the Timer class uses the same kind of
sleep-polling loop, to delay the exection and allow an intermediate
cancel, as the loop that is used in Queue.Queue, so that was no
gain.

I have still played with the idea, but haven't worked anything out
since then.

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Antoon Pardon