Help on thread pool

[Alex]

On May 17, 2:23 pm, Jeff <jeffo... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Your worker threads wait around forever because there is no place for
> them to exit.  Queue.get() by default blocks until there is an item in
> the queue available.  You can do something like this to cause the
> worker to quit when the queue is empty.  Just make sure that you fill
> the queue before starting the worker threads.
>
> from Queue import Queue, Empty
>
> # in your worker
> while True:
>   try:
>     item = q.get(block=False)
>   except Empty:
>     break
>   do_something_with_item()
>   q.task_done()
>
> You can also use a condition variable and a lock or a semaphore to
> signal the worker threads that all work has completed.

Thanks a lot, it works!


Alex