Threading and queue experiment I'm just beginning to get the idea of queue and threading.

I would welcome input on this exercise script:

from threading import Thread as T
from Queue import Queue as Q
from random import randint as R
import time

'''
Silly script exploring simple use of threadding.Thread and Queue.Queue
'''

q = Q()

now = time.time()

def one_up(queue):
        while time.time() - now &lt;= 20:
                other_num = queue.get()
                big_num = 5*other_num
                print("       {}!?!?".format(other_num))
                queue.put(big_num)
                print("Oh yea, well I put {} in the queue!".format(big_num))
                time.sleep(1)
        print("{} is a BIG number, man. Wow. Look. We made a pyramid.".format(big_num))

a_num = R(1,10)
q.put(a_num)
print("I put {} in the queue.".format(a_num))
t = T(target=one_up, args=(q,))
t.start()


Which outputs something along the lines of:




    I put 5 in the queue.
       5!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 25 in the queue!
       25!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 125 in the queue!
       125!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 625 in the queue!
       625!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 3125 in the queue!
       3125!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 15625 in the queue!
       15625!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 78125 in the queue!
       78125!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 390625 in the queue!
       390625!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 1953125 in the queue!
       1953125!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 9765625 in the queue!
       9765625!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 48828125 in the queue!
       48828125!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 244140625 in the queue!
       244140625!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 1220703125 in the queue!
       1220703125!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 6103515625 in the queue!
       6103515625!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 30517578125 in the queue!
       30517578125!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 152587890625 in the queue!
       152587890625!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 762939453125 in the queue!
       762939453125!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 3814697265625 in the queue!
       3814697265625!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 19073486328125 in the queue!
       19073486328125!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 95367431640625 in the queue!
       95367431640625!?!?
Oh yea, well I put 476837158203125 in the queue!
476837158203125 is a BIG number, man. Wow. Look. We made a pyramid.
Single-letter variable names are usually a bad practice, with few exceptions (loop counters, caught exception objects). Importing modules with single-letter names is very silly indeed. So don't do this:


from threading import Thread as T
from Queue import Queue as Q
from random import randint as R



Just stick to good old-fashioned:

from threading import Thread
from Queue import Queue
from random import randint


This is not a very interesting experiment with threading and a Queue. Check out the documentation, it's quite basic but much more interesting, and really using threading and a Queue.