Avoiding race conditions in Python 3's multiprocessing Queues

Question

I\'m trying to find the maximum weight of about 6.1 billion (custom) items and I would like to do this with parallel processing. For my particular application there are better a

Answer 1

You could put a special terminating item, such as None, into the queue. When a worker sees it, it can put it back for the other workers to see, and then terminate. Alternatively, you could put one special terminating item per worker into the queue.