What is the cleanest way to stop a python multiprocessing worker attached to a queue in an infinite loop?

Question

I\'m implementing a producer-consumer pattern in python using multiprocessing.Pool and multiprocessing.Queue. Consumers are pre-forked processes that u

Answer 1

I figured out the problem. According to documentation for multiprocessing.Pool.join(), pool needs to be close()ed before it can be join()ed. Adding pool.close() before pool.join() solved the problem.