Python multiprocessing: synchronizing file-like object

Question

I\'m trying to make a file like object which is meant to be assigned to sys.stdout/sys.stderr during testing to provide deterministic output. It\'s not meant to be fast, just re

Answer 1

I have encountered far fewer multiprocessing bugs with Python 2.7 than with Python 2.6. Having said this, the solution I used to avoid the "Exception in thread QueueFeederThread" problem is to sleep momentarily, possibly for 0.01s, in each process in which the the Queue is used. It is true that using sleep is not desirable or even reliable, but the specified duration was observed to work sufficiently well in practice for me. You can also try 0.1s.