# queue.Queue - Adding Cancelling support

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/queue-queue-adding-cancelling-support/25123>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [March 23, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/queue-queue-adding-cancelling-support/25123 "2023-03-23T23:21:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/queue-queue-adding-cancelling-support/25123/8 "2023-03-24T08:08:04Z")

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This is not about “terminating” the `queue.Queue` but “waking up” with proper signaling (an `Exception`) the queued `get` calls.

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