how does a queue stop the thread?

[Steve]

On Apr 21, 6:08 pm, kaiix <kvn.... at gmail.com> wrote:
> A simple thread pool example. My question is, since *MyThread.run*
> will loop endless, how does the thread know the time to quit? how does
> the *queue* notify the thread? is there any shared variables, like a
> *lock*?
>
> When I set daemon false, it stays in the loop, not quit any more.
> what's the role does the daemon state plays?
>
> code:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------
> import Queue
> import threading
>
> def do_some_thing(x):
>     print int(x)
>
> class MyThread(threading.Thread):
>     def __init__(self, queue):
>         threading.Thread.__init__(self)
>         self.queue = queue
>
>     def run(self):
>         while True:
>             params = self.queue.get()
>             do_some_thing(params)
>             self.queue.task_done()
>
> q = Queue.Queue()
>
> for i in range(1, 5):
>     t = MyThread(q)
>     t.setDaemon(True)
>     t.start()
>
> for x in range(10):
>     q.put(x)
>
> q.join()

Here's a slightly different example that demonstrates more clearly how
to end each thread.

http://effbot.org/librarybook/queue.htm