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

The simplest method is using a list comprehension:

items = [q.get() for _ in range(q.qsize())]

Use of the range function is generally frowned upon, but I haven't found a simpler method yet.