This bit of code hangs Python Indefinitely

[Duncan Booth]

brad <byte8bits at gmail.com> wrote:

> Chris Mellon wrote:
> 
>> ... the producer is designed to block if
>> the queue is full. You can use the put_nowait method to have it raise
>> an exception instead of blocking.
> 
> I assumed that the behavior would have been the other way around. I 
> should not have made that assumption.
> 

You could possibly make a case that before Queue.put blocks it should check 
whether the program has more than just the one thread and if not it should 
raise an RTFMException.