[stdlib-sig] moving queue.Queue to threading.Queue?

[Brett Cannon]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Erick Tryzelaar
<idadesub at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> (this mailing list seems to have quieted down a bit, but it seems like
> it's the most appropriate place to bring this up).
>
> Now that python has the multiprocessing module that also has it's own
> Queue class, would it make sense to move the queue.Queue to the
> threading module? I found a reference to this from back in 2007, but
> that was before multiprocessing so there might not have been a
> compelling reason to move the library. It'd be a little more
> orthogonal. That said, it's pretty late to be making any changes to
> 3.0, but I figure this would be the last time for a long time to
> consider doing this.
>

No because queue is not threading-specific, it just happens to be the
common use-case.

-Brett