Queue: Which form is better/more Pythonic?

[Jeff Hinrichs]

Is it better to break out of an infinite loop when the queue is empty
while 1:
    try:
        msg=qMsg.get_nowait()
        ...do something with msg...
    except Queue.Empty:
        break

or to loop against the .empty()

while not qMsg.empty():
    try:
        msg=qMsg.get_nowait()
        ...do something with msg...
    except Queue.Empty:
        pass

The docs say that .empty() is not reliable and I want to make sure that I
pass all messages from the producer to a consumer. Although my limited
testing with "while not qMsg.empty()" did not display a problem, the "not
reliable" phrase from the docs made me anxious about using it as a looping
control so I switched to the infinite loop with a break. I've googled and
seen both methods used but no discussion if one is "better" than the other.
The second I consider more readable but the first makes me worry less about
missing a non-empty queue.  Am I a worrying too much?

-Jeff Hinrichs