This bit of code hangs Python Indefinitely

[Steve Holden]

brad wrote:
> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> 
>> Why did you put an upper bound to the queue?
> 
> For clarity. Explicit is better than implicit, right? In our design, the 
> queue should only have x number of things, so why not show that? Other 
> than that, the limit is arbitrary and is not needed.

Yes, but you are asking a bit more of Queue.Queue than its design is 
intended to provide. Normally a limit on the input side is used to allow 
the scheduling of a consumer thread that will remove items, thus 
allowing the producer to restart.

regards
  Steve
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