# # Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one # or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file # distributed with this work for additional information # regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file # to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the # "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance # with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, # software distributed under the License is distributed on an # "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY # KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the # specific language governing permissions and limitations # under the License. # """ This module augments the standard python multithreaded Queue implementation to add a close() method so that threads blocking on the content of a queue can be notified if the queue is no longer in use. """ from Queue import Queue as BaseQueue, Empty, Full class Closed(Exception): pass class Queue(BaseQueue): END = object() def close(self): self.put(Queue.END) def get(self, block = True, timeout = None): result = BaseQueue.get(self, block, timeout) if result == Queue.END: # this guarantees that any other waiting threads or any future # calls to get will also result in a Closed exception self.put(Queue.END) raise Closed() else: return result