Python review and threading question

Question

I have one thread that inserts into a queueStream (not shown here) and a FlowController, which is another thread that appears from the queue if the queue is not empty.

I checked that the data is correctly inserted into the queue with the debug code in addToQueue ()

The problem is that the if if queueStream operator in the FlowController always sees that the queueStream is empty, and instead goes into the else statement.

I am new to Python and I feel like I am missing some simple scope rules. I use "global queueStream", but it seems to do nothing.

Thanks for any help.

from stream import *
from textwrap import TextWrapper
import threading
import time


queueStream = []

class FlowController(threading.Thread):
    def run(self):
        global queueStream
        while True:
            if queueStream:
                print 'Handling tweet'
                self.handleNextTweet()
            else:
                print 'No tweets, sleep for 1 second'
                time.sleep(1)

    def handleNextTweet(self):
        global queueStream
        status = queueStream.pop(0)
        print self.status_wrapper.fill(status.text)
        print '\n %s  %s  via %s\n' % (status.author.screen_name, status.created_at, status.source)


def addToQueue(status):
    print 'adding tweets to the queue'
    queueStream.append(status)

    #debug
    if queueStream:
        print 'queueStream is non-empty'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        runner = RunStream()
        runner.start()
        flow = FlowController()
        flow.start()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print '\nGoodbye!'

EDIT ::::

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from stream import *
from textwrap import TextWrapper
from threading import Thread
from Queue import Queue
import time


class FlowController(Thread):
    def __init__(self, queueStream):
        Thread.__init__(self)
        self.queueStream=queueStream

    def run(self):
        while True:
            status = self.queueStream.get()
            print self.status_wrapper.fill(status.text)
            print '\n %s  %s  via %s\n' % (status.author.screen_name, status.created_at, status.source)


def addToQueue(status):
    print 'adding tweets to the queue'
    queueStream.put(status)

queueStream = Queue()
if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        runner = RunStream()
        runner.start()
        flow = FlowController(queueStream)
        flow.start()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print '\nGoodbye!'

Answer 1

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import threading
import time
import Queue
import sys
import random

class FlowController(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self,queueStream):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)        
        self.queueStream=queueStream
    def run(self):
        while True:
            if not self.queueStream.empty():
                print 'Handling tweet'
                self.handleNextTweet()
            else:
                print 'No tweets, sleep for 1 second'
                time.sleep(1)
    def handleNextTweet(self):
        status = self.queueStream.get()
        print(status)

class RunStream(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self,queueStream):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
        self.queueStream=queueStream
    def run(self):
        i=0
        while True:
            addToQueue(self.queueStream,i)
            i+=1
            time.sleep(random.randint(0,2))

def addToQueue(queueStream,status):
    print 'adding tweets to the queue'
    queueStream.put(status)
    if not queueStream.empty():
        print 'queueStream is non-empty'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    queueStream = Queue.Queue()
    try:
        runner = RunStream(queueStream)
        runner.daemon=True
        runner.start()
        flow = FlowController(queueStream)
        flow.daemon=True
        flow.start()
        time.sleep(100)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        pass
    finally:
        print('Bye!')

Answer 2

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def addToQueue(status):
    global queueStream
    print 'adding tweets to the queue'
    queueStream.append(status)

    #debug
    if queueStream:
        print 'queueStream is non-empty'