If it makes you feel any better, I spent an hour this morning building a 2-function API for Linux and Windows, both tested, not using ctypes, and not even using any part of asyncio (the Windows bits are in msvcrt and _winapi). It works in Python 3.3+. You can see it here: http://pastebin.com/0LpyQtU5

 - Josiah



On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
On 28 March 2014 05:09, Josiah Carlson <josiah.carlson@gmail.com> wrote:
> So yeah. Someone want to make a decision? Tell me to write the docs, I will.
> Tell me to go take a long walk off a short pier, I'll thank you for your
> time and leave you alone.

I had a need for this a few years ago. It's messy to do on Windows
(ctypes callouts to PeekNamedPipe to check if you can read from the
process without blocking). So I would like to see a recipe for this,
(even if it's likely to be another few years before I ever need it
again :-)).

Paul