Queue.Queue-like class without the busy-wait

[Paul Rubin]

Antoon Pardon <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> writes:
> > I've never checked this code but it wouldn't have occurred to me that
> > Queue uses any kind of timeout loop.  Can't it work the obvious way
> > with a semaphore?
> 
> And how is this semaphore going to be released if the timeout is
> reached?

I meant a semaphore to synchronize the queue when adding or removing
objects.  Timeout would be handled with sigalarm or select.