Queue peek?

[Raymond Hettinger]

On Mar 2, 8:29 am, Veloz <michaelve... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
> I'm looking for a queue that I can use with multiprocessing, which has
> a peek method.
>
> I've seen some discussion about queue.peek but don't see anything in
> the docs about it.
>
> Does python have a queue class with peek semantics?

Am curious about your use case?  Why peek at something
that could be gone by the time you want to use it.

  val = q.peek()
  if something_i_want(val):
       v2 = q.get()         # this could be different than val

Wouldn't it be better to just get() the value and return if you don't
need it?

  val = q.peek()
  if not something_i_want(val):
      q.put(val)


Raymond