--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/queues/backends/dummy.py	Wed Jul 01 19:01:10 2009 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+"""
+A dummy queue that uses Python's built-in Queue class.
+
+Useful for testing but likely not much else.
+"""
+import Queue as queue
+from queues import QueueException
+from queues.backends.base import BaseQueue
+
+
+dummy_queue = queue.Queue()
+
+
+class Queue(BaseQueue):
+    def __init__(self, name='default'):
+        self.queue = dummy_queue
+        self.backend = 'dummy'
+        self.name = name
+
+    def read(self):
+        try:
+            message = self.queue.get(block=False)
+            self.queue.task_done()
+            return message
+        except queue.Empty, e:
+            raise QueueException("The queue is empty.")
+
+    def write(self, message):
+        try:
+            return self.queue.put(message)
+        except queue.Full, e:
+            raise QueueException("The queue is full.")
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        return self.queue.qsize()
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return "<Queue %s>" % self.name
+
+
+def create_queue():
+    """This isn't required, so we noop.  Kept here for swapability."""
+    return True
+
+
+def delete_queue(name):
+    """Just start afresh."""
+    try:
+        while True:
+            dummy_queue.get(block=False)
+    except queue.Empty:
+        # Yay, exhausted.
+        pass
+
+
+def get_list():
+    """No way to do this."""
+    raise NotImplementedError