Message 301175 - Python tracker

Message301175

Author	tim.peters
Recipients	JohanAR, davin, gvanrossum, itamarst, ncoghlan, pitrou, python-dev, rhettinger, sbt, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters, yselivanov, zzzeek
Date	2017-09-02.21:43:23
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Message-id	<1504388603.6.0.967909560508.issue14976@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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[Guido] > Why was task management ever added? Raymond published a "joinable" queue class as a recipe here: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/475160-taskqueue/ and later folded it into the standard Python queue. So the usual answer applies: "it was easy to add and sometimes useful, so it seemed like a good idea at the time" ;-)

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[Guido]
> Why was task management ever added?

Raymond published a "joinable" queue class as a recipe here:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/475160-taskqueue/

and later folded it into the standard Python queue.  So the usual answer applies:  "it was easy to add and sometimes useful, so it seemed like a good idea at the time" ;-)

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