##Using Queue with multiprocessing – Chapter 3: Process Based Parallelism import multiprocessing import random import time class producer(multiprocessing.Process): def __init__(self, queue): multiprocessing.Process.__init__(self) self.queue = queue def run(self) : for i in range(10): item = random.randint(0, 256) self.queue.put(item) print ("Process Producer : item %d appended to queue %s"\ % (item,self.name)) time.sleep(1) print ("The size of queue is %s"\ % self.queue.qsize()) class consumer(multiprocessing.Process): def __init__(self, queue): multiprocessing.Process.__init__(self) self.queue = queue def run(self): while True: if (self.queue.empty()): print("the queue is empty") break else: time.sleep(2) item = self.queue.get() print ('Process Consumer : item %d popped from by %s \n'\ % (item, self.name)) time.sleep(5) if __name__ == '__main__': queue = multiprocessing.Queue() process_producer = producer(queue) process_consumer = consumer(queue) process_producer.start() process_consumer.start() process_producer.join() process_consumer.join()