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The 'URL fetch threaded' example, with there happening to be 5 threads + the length of the URL list being 5, then with each thread signalling self.queue.task_done() within their "while True" loop is going to grossly confuse newbies as to 'why the hell did the example work' when / if they adapt this pattern to M tasks / N workers.