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- <section id="module-queue">
- <span id="queue-a-synchronized-queue-class"></span><h1><a class="reference internal" href="#module-queue" title="queue: A synchronized queue class."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">queue</span></code></a> — A synchronized queue class<a class="headerlink" href="#module-queue" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
- <p><strong>Source code:</strong> <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/3.12/Lib/queue.py">Lib/queue.py</a></p>
- <hr class="docutils" />
- <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-queue" title="queue: A synchronized queue class."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">queue</span></code></a> module implements multi-producer, multi-consumer queues.
- It is especially useful in threaded programming when information must be
- exchanged safely between multiple threads. The <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue" title="queue.Queue"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Queue</span></code></a> class in this
- module implements all the required locking semantics.</p>
- <p>The module implements three types of queue, which differ only in the order in
- which the entries are retrieved. In a <abbr title="first-in, first-out">FIFO</abbr>
- queue, the first tasks added are the first retrieved. In a
- <abbr title="last-in, first-out">LIFO</abbr> queue, the most recently added entry is
- the first retrieved (operating like a stack). With a priority queue,
- the entries are kept sorted (using the <a class="reference internal" href="heapq.html#module-heapq" title="heapq: Heap queue algorithm (a.k.a. priority queue)."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">heapq</span></code></a> module) and the
- lowest valued entry is retrieved first.</p>
- <p>Internally, those three types of queues use locks to temporarily block
- competing threads; however, they are not designed to handle reentrancy
- within a thread.</p>
- <p>In addition, the module implements a “simple”
- <abbr title="first-in, first-out">FIFO</abbr> queue type, <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.SimpleQueue" title="queue.SimpleQueue"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SimpleQueue</span></code></a>, whose
- specific implementation provides additional guarantees
- in exchange for the smaller functionality.</p>
- <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-queue" title="queue: A synchronized queue class."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">queue</span></code></a> module defines the following classes and exceptions:</p>
- <dl class="py class">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.Queue">
- <em class="property"><span class="pre">class</span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">queue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">Queue</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">maxsize</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">0</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.Queue" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Constructor for a <abbr title="first-in, first-out">FIFO</abbr> queue. <em>maxsize</em> is
- an integer that sets the upperbound
- limit on the number of items that can be placed in the queue. Insertion will
- block once this size has been reached, until queue items are consumed. If
- <em>maxsize</em> is less than or equal to zero, the queue size is infinite.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py class">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.LifoQueue">
- <em class="property"><span class="pre">class</span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">queue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">LifoQueue</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">maxsize</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">0</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.LifoQueue" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Constructor for a <abbr title="last-in, first-out">LIFO</abbr> queue. <em>maxsize</em> is
- an integer that sets the upperbound
- limit on the number of items that can be placed in the queue. Insertion will
- block once this size has been reached, until queue items are consumed. If
- <em>maxsize</em> is less than or equal to zero, the queue size is infinite.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py class">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.PriorityQueue">
- <em class="property"><span class="pre">class</span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">queue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">PriorityQueue</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">maxsize</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">0</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.PriorityQueue" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Constructor for a priority queue. <em>maxsize</em> is an integer that sets the upperbound
- limit on the number of items that can be placed in the queue. Insertion will
- block once this size has been reached, until queue items are consumed. If
- <em>maxsize</em> is less than or equal to zero, the queue size is infinite.</p>
- <p>The lowest valued entries are retrieved first (the lowest valued entry is the
- one that would be returned by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">min(entries)</span></code>). A typical pattern for
- entries is a tuple in the form: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(priority_number,</span> <span class="pre">data)</span></code>.</p>
- <p>If the <em>data</em> elements are not comparable, the data can be wrapped in a class
- that ignores the data item and only compares the priority number:</p>
- <div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">dataclasses</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">dataclass</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">field</span>
- <span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">typing</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Any</span>
-
- <span class="nd">@dataclass</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">order</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
- <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">PrioritizedItem</span><span class="p">:</span>
- <span class="n">priority</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="nb">int</span>
- <span class="n">item</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Any</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">field</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">compare</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">False</span><span class="p">)</span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py class">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.SimpleQueue">
- <em class="property"><span class="pre">class</span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">queue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">SimpleQueue</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.SimpleQueue" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Constructor for an unbounded <abbr title="first-in, first-out">FIFO</abbr> queue.
- Simple queues lack advanced functionality such as task tracking.</p>
- <div class="versionadded">
- <p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.7.</span></p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py exception">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.Empty">
- <em class="property"><span class="pre">exception</span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">queue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">Empty</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.Empty" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Exception raised when non-blocking <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue.get" title="queue.Queue.get"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get()</span></code></a> (or
- <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue.get_nowait" title="queue.Queue.get_nowait"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_nowait()</span></code></a>) is called
- on a <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue" title="queue.Queue"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Queue</span></code></a> object which is empty.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py exception">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.Full">
- <em class="property"><span class="pre">exception</span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">queue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">Full</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.Full" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Exception raised when non-blocking <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue.put" title="queue.Queue.put"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">put()</span></code></a> (or
- <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue.put_nowait" title="queue.Queue.put_nowait"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">put_nowait()</span></code></a>) is called
- on a <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue" title="queue.Queue"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Queue</span></code></a> object which is full.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <section id="queue-objects">
- <span id="queueobjects"></span><h2>Queue Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#queue-objects" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <p>Queue objects (<a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue" title="queue.Queue"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Queue</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.LifoQueue" title="queue.LifoQueue"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LifoQueue</span></code></a>, or <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.PriorityQueue" title="queue.PriorityQueue"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PriorityQueue</span></code></a>)
- provide the public methods described below.</p>
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.Queue.qsize">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">Queue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">qsize</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.Queue.qsize" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return the approximate size of the queue. Note, qsize() > 0 doesn’t
- guarantee that a subsequent get() will not block, nor will qsize() < maxsize
- guarantee that put() will not block.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.Queue.empty">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">Queue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">empty</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.Queue.empty" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code> if the queue is empty, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code> otherwise. If empty()
- returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code> it doesn’t guarantee that a subsequent call to put()
- will not block. Similarly, if empty() returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code> it doesn’t
- guarantee that a subsequent call to get() will not block.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.Queue.full">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">Queue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">full</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.Queue.full" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code> if the queue is full, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code> otherwise. If full()
- returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code> it doesn’t guarantee that a subsequent call to get()
- will not block. Similarly, if full() returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code> it doesn’t
- guarantee that a subsequent call to put() will not block.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.Queue.put">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">Queue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">put</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">item</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">block</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">True</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">timeout</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">None</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.Queue.put" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Put <em>item</em> into the queue. If optional args <em>block</em> is true and <em>timeout</em> is
- <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> (the default), block if necessary until a free slot is available. If
- <em>timeout</em> is a positive number, it blocks at most <em>timeout</em> seconds and raises
- the <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Full" title="queue.Full"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Full</span></code></a> exception if no free slot was available within that time.
- Otherwise (<em>block</em> is false), put an item on the queue if a free slot is
- immediately available, else raise the <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Full" title="queue.Full"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Full</span></code></a> exception (<em>timeout</em> is
- ignored in that case).</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.Queue.put_nowait">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">Queue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">put_nowait</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">item</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.Queue.put_nowait" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Equivalent to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">put(item,</span> <span class="pre">block=False)</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.Queue.get">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">Queue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">block</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">True</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">timeout</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">None</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.Queue.get" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Remove and return an item from the queue. If optional args <em>block</em> is true and
- <em>timeout</em> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> (the default), block if necessary until an item is available.
- If <em>timeout</em> is a positive number, it blocks at most <em>timeout</em> seconds and
- raises the <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Empty" title="queue.Empty"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Empty</span></code></a> exception if no item was available within that time.
- Otherwise (<em>block</em> is false), return an item if one is immediately available,
- else raise the <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Empty" title="queue.Empty"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Empty</span></code></a> exception (<em>timeout</em> is ignored in that case).</p>
- <p>Prior to 3.0 on POSIX systems, and for all versions on Windows, if
- <em>block</em> is true and <em>timeout</em> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, this operation goes into
- an uninterruptible wait on an underlying lock. This means that no exceptions
- can occur, and in particular a SIGINT will not trigger a <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#KeyboardInterrupt" title="KeyboardInterrupt"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">KeyboardInterrupt</span></code></a>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.Queue.get_nowait">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">Queue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_nowait</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.Queue.get_nowait" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Equivalent to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get(False)</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <p>Two methods are offered to support tracking whether enqueued tasks have been
- fully processed by daemon consumer threads.</p>
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.Queue.task_done">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">Queue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">task_done</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.Queue.task_done" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Indicate that a formerly enqueued task is complete. Used by queue consumer
- threads. For each <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue.get" title="queue.Queue.get"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get()</span></code></a> used to fetch a task, a subsequent call to
- <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue.task_done" title="queue.Queue.task_done"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">task_done()</span></code></a> tells the queue that the processing on the task is complete.</p>
- <p>If a <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue.join" title="queue.Queue.join"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">join()</span></code></a> is currently blocking, it will resume when all items have been
- processed (meaning that a <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue.task_done" title="queue.Queue.task_done"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">task_done()</span></code></a> call was received for every item
- that had been <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue.put" title="queue.Queue.put"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">put()</span></code></a> into the queue).</p>
- <p>Raises a <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> if called more times than there were items placed in
- the queue.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.Queue.join">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">Queue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">join</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.Queue.join" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Blocks until all items in the queue have been gotten and processed.</p>
- <p>The count of unfinished tasks goes up whenever an item is added to the queue.
- The count goes down whenever a consumer thread calls <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue.task_done" title="queue.Queue.task_done"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">task_done()</span></code></a> to
- indicate that the item was retrieved and all work on it is complete. When the
- count of unfinished tasks drops to zero, <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue.join" title="queue.Queue.join"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">join()</span></code></a> unblocks.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <p>Example of how to wait for enqueued tasks to be completed:</p>
- <div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">threading</span>
- <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">queue</span>
-
- <span class="n">q</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">queue</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Queue</span><span class="p">()</span>
-
- <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">worker</span><span class="p">():</span>
- <span class="k">while</span> <span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">:</span>
- <span class="n">item</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">q</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">()</span>
- <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s1">'Working on </span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">item</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s1">'</span><span class="p">)</span>
- <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s1">'Finished </span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">item</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s1">'</span><span class="p">)</span>
- <span class="n">q</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">task_done</span><span class="p">()</span>
-
- <span class="c1"># Turn-on the worker thread.</span>
- <span class="n">threading</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Thread</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">target</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">worker</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">daemon</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">start</span><span class="p">()</span>
-
- <span class="c1"># Send thirty task requests to the worker.</span>
- <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">item</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">30</span><span class="p">):</span>
- <span class="n">q</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">put</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">item</span><span class="p">)</span>
-
- <span class="c1"># Block until all tasks are done.</span>
- <span class="n">q</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">()</span>
- <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'All work completed'</span><span class="p">)</span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- </section>
- <section id="simplequeue-objects">
- <h2>SimpleQueue Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#simplequeue-objects" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <p><a class="reference internal" href="#queue.SimpleQueue" title="queue.SimpleQueue"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SimpleQueue</span></code></a> objects provide the public methods described below.</p>
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.SimpleQueue.qsize">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">SimpleQueue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">qsize</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.SimpleQueue.qsize" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return the approximate size of the queue. Note, qsize() > 0 doesn’t
- guarantee that a subsequent get() will not block.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.SimpleQueue.empty">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">SimpleQueue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">empty</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.SimpleQueue.empty" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code> if the queue is empty, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code> otherwise. If empty()
- returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code> it doesn’t guarantee that a subsequent call to get()
- will not block.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.SimpleQueue.put">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">SimpleQueue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">put</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">item</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">block</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">True</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">timeout</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">None</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.SimpleQueue.put" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Put <em>item</em> into the queue. The method never blocks and always succeeds
- (except for potential low-level errors such as failure to allocate memory).
- The optional args <em>block</em> and <em>timeout</em> are ignored and only provided
- for compatibility with <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue.put" title="queue.Queue.put"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Queue.put()</span></code></a>.</p>
- <div class="impl-detail compound">
- <p><strong>CPython implementation detail:</strong> This method has a C implementation which is reentrant. That is, a
- <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">put()</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get()</span></code> call can be interrupted by another <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">put()</span></code>
- call in the same thread without deadlocking or corrupting internal
- state inside the queue. This makes it appropriate for use in
- destructors such as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">__del__</span></code> methods or <a class="reference internal" href="weakref.html#module-weakref" title="weakref: Support for weak references and weak dictionaries."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">weakref</span></code></a> callbacks.</p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.SimpleQueue.put_nowait">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">SimpleQueue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">put_nowait</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">item</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.SimpleQueue.put_nowait" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Equivalent to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">put(item,</span> <span class="pre">block=False)</span></code>, provided for compatibility with
- <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Queue.put_nowait" title="queue.Queue.put_nowait"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Queue.put_nowait()</span></code></a>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.SimpleQueue.get">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">SimpleQueue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">block</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">True</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">timeout</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">None</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.SimpleQueue.get" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Remove and return an item from the queue. If optional args <em>block</em> is true and
- <em>timeout</em> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> (the default), block if necessary until an item is available.
- If <em>timeout</em> is a positive number, it blocks at most <em>timeout</em> seconds and
- raises the <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Empty" title="queue.Empty"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Empty</span></code></a> exception if no item was available within that time.
- Otherwise (<em>block</em> is false), return an item if one is immediately available,
- else raise the <a class="reference internal" href="#queue.Empty" title="queue.Empty"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Empty</span></code></a> exception (<em>timeout</em> is ignored in that case).</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="queue.SimpleQueue.get_nowait">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">SimpleQueue.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_nowait</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#queue.SimpleQueue.get_nowait" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Equivalent to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get(False)</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <div class="admonition seealso">
- <p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
- <dl class="simple">
- <dt>Class <a class="reference internal" href="multiprocessing.html#multiprocessing.Queue" title="multiprocessing.Queue"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">multiprocessing.Queue</span></code></a></dt><dd><p>A queue class for use in a multi-processing (rather than multi-threading)
- context.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- <p><a class="reference internal" href="collections.html#collections.deque" title="collections.deque"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">collections.deque</span></code></a> is an alternative implementation of unbounded
- queues with fast atomic <a class="reference internal" href="collections.html#collections.deque.append" title="collections.deque.append"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">append()</span></code></a> and
- <a class="reference internal" href="collections.html#collections.deque.popleft" title="collections.deque.popleft"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">popleft()</span></code></a> operations that do not require locking
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