Queue.Queue examples?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Dave> despite having read the manual, i'm still totally ignorant on the
    Dave> basic concept of Queue and how can it be used to safely pass
    Dave> objects between two (or more) threads. could someone enlighten me?

Suppose you have a Queue object:

    q = Queue.Queue()

In one thread you can execute:

    q.put(someobj)

In another thread you can execute:

    someobj = q.get()

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