Message301175
[Guido]
> Why was task management ever added?
Raymond published a "joinable" queue class as a recipe here:
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/475160-taskqueue/
and later folded it into the standard Python queue. So the usual answer applies: "it was easy to add and sometimes useful, so it seemed like a good idea at the time" ;-) |
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