Chris McDonough <chrism@plope.com> wrote:
As far as I can tell, asyncore/asynchat is all "undocumented internals". Any use of asyncore in anger will use internals; there never was any well-understood API to these modules.
What I would like to see is a module that provides a low-level API for doing cross-platform asynchronous IO. The two necessary parts are: * a wrapper that allows non-blocking reads and writes on channels (sockets, file descriptors, serial ports, etc) * a select() or epoll like interface that allows waiting on multiple channels The implementation requires some intricate and platform specific code which is why it would be nice to be a standard library feature. I'm sure that Twisted has the necessary parts but the problem, IMHO, is that it does so much more else. Neil