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[Alex Martelli]

Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:

> placid wrote:
> 
> > I have a thread that has a job Queue, it continuosly polls this queue
> > to see if there are any jobs for it, what i really wont to be able to
> > do is, when the queue is empty, i want the thread to pause (or more
> > technical, i want the thread to block) until the queue gets populated
> > again. Is this possible ?
> 
> Isn't that the default behaviour of Queue.get()? 

Absolutely!  placid, just call the get method of that Queue instance: if
the queue is empty your thread DOES pause, or block, until there's some
item put on the queue by another thread.


Alex