[Python-Dev] Forgotten Py3.0 change to remove Queue.empty() andQueue.full()

[Raymond Hettinger]

> [MvL]
>> At this point, I do request that the patch is reverted completely
>> (i.e. that the documentation is restored), and that the qualification
>> "not reliable!" is removed from the doc strings of the methods, as
>> it is factually incorrect.
> 
> I would be happy to restore the documentation.  You want the methods
> back and I think that's sufficient reason to bring it back.
> 
> The "not reliable" wording in the docstrings was put there by Guido 16 years ago. 
> http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/Queue.py?revision=3158&view=markup
> Speak to him about this.  I'm done with this thread.

Also, for years, the documentation also had a "not-reliable" notice:

    Return ``True`` if the queue is empty, ``False`` otherwise. 
    Because of multithreading semantics, this is not reliable.

Skip changed it to the present wording last year:
http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Doc/library/queue.rst?r1=59750&r2=59969


Raymond