Get all items from thread Queue

Question

I have one thread that writes results into a Queue.

In another thread (GUI), I periodically (in the IDLE event) check if there are results in the queue, like this:

Answer 1

If you're done writing to the queue, qsize should do the trick without needing to check the queue for each iteration.

responseList = []
for items in range(0, q.qsize()):
    responseList.append(q.get_nowait())