March 6, 2009
1:15 p.m.
Antoine Pitrou wrote:
For starters, since py3k is supposed to support non-blocking IO, why not write a portable API to make a raw file or socket IO object non-blocking?
I think we need to be clearer what we mean when we talk about non-blocking in this context. Normally when you're using select/poll you *don't* make the underlying file descriptor non-blocking in the OS sense. The non-blockingness comes from the fact that you're using select/poll to make sure the fd is ready before you access it. So I don't think it makes sense to talk about having a non-blocking API as a separate thing from a select/poll wrapper. The select/poll wrapper *is* the non-blocking API. -- Greg