Howto wait for multiple queues (Queue.py)?

[Alex Martelli]

Andreas Ames wrote:

> as I prefer to use queues for interthread communication, I need

Queues are GREAT for interthread communication, BUT:

> something like a 'mainloop' for my threads in the sense that every
> thread can have multiple input queues and I want to be able to block

...this doesn't follow -- just make all requests to a thread onto
a single Queue (tag the requests with 'kind' or whatever as needed)
and live happily.  A Queue instance *IS* implicitly, automatically
and intrinsically "synchronized" -- several threads can be reading
and/or writing to the same Queue instance and you're guaranteed that
they'll never interfere with each other.  That's just about the
whole POINT of the Queue class.


Alex