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#Threading and Queues
# Thread body: loop until the coordinator indicates a stop was requested.
# If some condition becomes true, ask the coordinator to stop.
def MyLoop(coord):
  while not coord.should_stop():
    ...do something...
    if ...some condition...:
      coord.request_stop()

# Main thread: create a coordinator.
coord = tf.train.Coordinator()

# Create 10 threads that run 'MyLoop()'
threads = [threading.Thread(target=MyLoop, args=(coord,)) for i in xrange(10)]

# Start the threads and wait for all of them to stop.
for t in threads:
  t.start()
coord.join(threads)


    

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example = ...ops to create one example...
# Create a queue, and an op that enqueues examples one at a time in the queue.
queue = tf.RandomShuffleQueue(...)
enqueue_op = queue.enqueue(example)
# Create a training graph that starts by dequeuing a batch of examples.
inputs = queue.dequeue_many(batch_size)
train_op = ...use 'inputs' to build the training part of the graph...


    

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import tensorflow as tf
# Create a queue runner that will run 4 threads in parallel to enqueue
# examples.
qr = tf.train.QueueRunner(queue, [enqueue_op] * 4)

# Launch the graph.
sess = tf.Session()
# Create a coordinator, launch the queue runner threads.
coord = tf.train.Coordinator()
enqueue_threads = qr.create_threads(sess, coord=coord, start=True)
# Run the training loop, controlling termination with the coordinator.
for step in xrange(1000000):
    if coord.should_stop():
        break
    sess.run(train_op)
# When done, ask the threads to stop.
coord.request_stop()
# And wait for them to actually do it.
coord.join(enqueue_threads)


    

    




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NameError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-1c56a76e5c93> in <module>()
      2 # Create a queue runner that will run 4 threads in parallel to enqueue
      3 # examples.
----> 4 qr = tf.train.QueueRunner(queue, [enqueue_op] * 4)
      5 
      6 # Launch the graph.

NameError: name 'queue' is not defined

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try:
    for step in xrange(1000000):
        if coord.should_stop():
            break
        sess.run(train_op)
except Exception, e:
    # Report exceptions to the coordinator.
    coord.request_stop(e)
finally:
    # Terminate as usual. It is safe to call `coord.request_stop()` twice.
    coord.request_stop()
    coord.join(threads)