[issue10110] Queue doesn't recognize it is full after shrinking maxsize

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

That won't be necessary.  The change from == to <= is innocuous.

There's no need to lock-up maxsize in a read-only property.  We're consenting adults.  Besides, it would probably break someone-else's odd use case.  I don't want to expand the API, nor do I want to cripple anyone's ability to do weird stuff with it.

FWIW, the full() and empty() methods are usually not a good idea.  It's better to catch a Full exception.  Otherwise, the information can be out of date by the time you try to use it.

I'm going to mark this as a 3.2 only change.  There were no guarantees about the behavior when maxsize is changed, nor should we make such guarantees.

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versions:  -Python 2.7, Python 3.1

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