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| author | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2016-05-16 06:31:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2016-05-16 06:31:54 (GMT) |
| commit | 4ecfa455ae47bd955857348238c8bf8476819a1e (patch) | |
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Expand abbreviations FIFO and LIFO.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 1b1d386..b2b02b0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -644,8 +644,9 @@ primitives like locks. For passing messages one can use :func:`Pipe` (for a connection between two processes) or a queue (which allows multiple producers and consumers). -The :class:`Queue`, :class:`SimpleQueue` and :class:`JoinableQueue` types are multi-producer, -multi-consumer FIFO queues modelled on the :class:`queue.Queue` class in the +The :class:`Queue`, :class:`SimpleQueue` and :class:`JoinableQueue` types +are multi-producer, multi-consumer :abbr:`FIFO (first-in, first-out)` +queues modelled on the :class:`queue.Queue` class in the standard library. They differ in that :class:`Queue` lacks the :meth:`~queue.Queue.task_done` and :meth:`~queue.Queue.join` methods introduced into Python 2.5's :class:`queue.Queue` class. |