##Using Queue with multiprocessing – Chapter 3: Process Based Parallelism
import multiprocessing
import random
import time
class producer(multiprocessing.Process):
def __init__(self, queue):
multiprocessing.Process.__init__(self)
self.queue = queue
def run(self) :
for i in range(10):
item = random.randint(0, 256)
self.queue.put(item)
print ("Process Producer : item %d appended to queue %s"\
% (item,self.name))
time.sleep(1)
print ("The size of queue is %s"\
% self.queue.qsize())
class consumer(multiprocessing.Process):
def __init__(self, queue):
multiprocessing.Process.__init__(self)
self.queue = queue
def run(self):
while True:
if (self.queue.empty()):
print("the queue is empty")
break
else:
time.sleep(2)
item = self.queue.get()
print ('Process Consumer : item %d popped from by %s \n'\
% (item, self.name))
time.sleep(5)
if __name__ == '__main__':
queue = multiprocessing.Queue()
process_producer = producer(queue)
process_consumer = consumer(queue)
process_producer.start()
process_consumer.start()
process_producer.join()
process_consumer.join()