Queue() question. This post is pretty long.

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> grocery_stocker <cdalten at gmail.com> (g) wrote:

>g> [cdalten at localhost ~]$ python
>g> Python 2.4.3 (#1, Oct  1 2006, 18:00:19)
>g> [GCC 4.1.1 20060928 (Red Hat 4.1.1-28)] on linux2
>g> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> import Queue
>>>>> queue = Queue.Queue()
>>>>> 
>>>>> while 1:
>g> ...    item = queue.get()
>g> ...    if item == 'done':
>g> ...       break
>g> ...
>g> this
>g> is
>g> a
>g> test
>g> done

>g> [3]+  Stopped                 python
>g> [cdalten at localhost ~]$ kill %3

>g> It appears that only item = queue.get() called. Ie, the block never
>g> advances to if item == 'done':
>g> like in the first example

You don't put anything in the queue here. The lines that you type there
don't get magically into the queue. So therefore the queue.get blocks.
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