But qsize() is working. what is not working is empty()

2013/5/15 Richard Oudkerk <report@bugs.python.org>

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> Richard Oudkerk added the comment:
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> >From the docs:
>
>  qsize()
>     Return the approximate size of the queue. Because of
>     multithreading/multiprocessing semantics, this number
>     is not reliable.
>
> Adding a short sleep before calling qsize() and empty() should make things
> appear to work.
>
> But really, there are no good reasons for using qsize() except for
> debugging.  The same applies to queue.Queue.
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> nosy: +sbt
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