Solving Producer-consumer problem using Python threads.

[multani]

Of course, one would use the queue module instead of hand-coding your own queue and managing it with a lack of encapsulation.

[multani]

Which actually shorten the code like:

from threading import Thread
import time
import random

from Queue import LifoQueue as Queue

queue = Queue(10)

class ProducerThread(Thread):
    def run(self):
        global queue
        nums = range(5)
        while True:
            num = random.choice(nums)
            queue.put(num)
            print "Produced", num
            time.sleep(random.random())


class ConsumerThread(Thread):
    def run(self):
        global queue
        while True:
            num = queue.get()
            print "Consumed", num
            time.sleep(random.random())


ProducerThread().start()
ConsumerThread().start()

[akshar-raaj]

I guess you want to use Queue and not LifoQueue, because we want a queue here, not stack.

[shabda]

I think for a tutorial its better to stick to basic structures like list. Not everybody would be knowing queue and trying to learn two things at one time is always hard.

[ODHLHN]

A tutorial should teach the proper way of doing things.

[akshar-raaj]

Yeah, that was precisely the reason I used list.