collect data using threads
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Tue Jun 14 12:44:32 EDT 2005
James Tanis wrote:
> I may be wrong here, but shouldn't you just use a stack, or in other
> words, use the list as a stack and just pop the data off the top. I
> believe there is a method pop() already supplied for you.
Just a note on terminology here. I believe the word "stack" generally
refers to a LIFO (last-in first-out) structure, not what the OP needs
which is a FIFO (first-in first-out).
Assuming you would refer to the .append() operation as "putting data on
the bottom", then to pop off the "top" you would use pop(0), not just
pop().
Normally though, I think one would refer to these as the head and tail
(not top and bottom), and probably call the whole thing a queue, rather
than a stack.
-Peter
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