How to iterate Queue.Queue items in Python?

Question

Does anyone know a pythonic way of iterating over the elements of a Queue.Queue without removing them from the Queue. I have a producer/consumer-type p

Answer 1

You can subclass queue.Queue to achieve this in a thread-safe way:

import queue


class ImprovedQueue(queue.Queue):
    def to_list(self):
        """
        Returns a copy of all items in the queue without removing them.
        """

        with self.mutex:
            return list(self.queue)