davea at ieee
Nov 26, 2009, 11:50 AM
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Ken Seehart wrote:
> I need to create a pipe where I have one thread (or maybe a generator)
> writing data to the tail while another python object is reading from
> the head. This will run in real time, so the data must be deallocated
> after it is consumed. Reading should block until data is written, and
> writing should block when the buffer is full (i.e. until some of the
> data is consumed). I assume there must be a trivial way to do this,
> but I don't see it. Any ideas or examples?
>
> I'm using python 2.6.
>
>
Seems to me collections.deque is a good data structure for the purpose,
at least if both operations are in the same thread.
For multithreading, consider Queue module (or queue in Python 3.x).
DaveA
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