From 9059843a60e94bea3a42a20907fd7495942f89a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:38:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Describe new methods in Queue module --- Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex index 99618e68adb..fce392736e9 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex @@ -1664,6 +1664,13 @@ single number as \file{pystone.py} does. \item The \module{pyexpat} module now uses version 2.0 of the Expat parser. (Contributed by Trent Mick.) +\item The \class{Queue} class provided by the \module{Queue} module +gained two new methods. \method{join()} blocks until all items in +the queue have been retrieved and all processing work on the items +have been completed. Worker threads call the other new method, +\method{task_done()}, to signal that processing for an item has been +completed. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.) + \item The old \module{regex} and \module{regsub} modules, which have been deprecated ever since Python 2.0, have finally been deleted. Other deleted modules: \module{statcache}, \module{tzparse},