Multi thread reading a file

[Paul Rubin]

"Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> writes:
> We're talking about the iter() builtin behavior, and that uses ==
> internally.

Oh, I see.  Drat.

> It could have used an identity test, and that would be better for this
> specific case. But then iter(somefile.read, '') wouldn't work.

Yeah, it should allow supplying a predicate instead of using == on
a value.  How about (untested):

   from itertools import *
   ...
   for row in takewhile(lambda x: x is sentinel,
                         starmap(in_queue.get, repeat(()))): 
      ...