# asyncio.exceptions.TimeoutError: Queue get timed out

- **ID:** `python/asyncio-queue-get-timeout`
- **Domain:** python
- **Category:** runtime_error
- **Verification:** ai_generated
- **Fix Rate:** 80%

## Root Cause

An asyncio.Queue.get() call with a timeout did not receive an item within the specified time.

## Version Compatibility

| Version | Status | Introduced | Deprecated |
|---------|--------|------------|------------|
| 3.9 | active | — | — |
| 3.10 | active | — | — |

## Workarounds

1. **Use asyncio.wait_for() with a reasonable timeout and handle timeout gracefully** (90% success)
   ```
   try:
    item = await asyncio.wait_for(queue.get(), timeout=5.0)
except asyncio.TimeoutError:
    item = None  # or handle differently
   ```
2. **Use queue.get_nowait() in a loop with sleep** (80% success)
   ```
   while True:
    try:
        item = queue.get_nowait()
        break
    except asyncio.QueueEmpty:
        await asyncio.sleep(0.1)
   ```

## Dead Ends

- **Using a very large timeout to avoid the error** — This may cause the application to hang if items are never produced. (30% fail)
- **Polling the queue with qsize() before get()** — qsize() is not reliable in concurrent scenarios due to race conditions. (60% fail)