Re: [Python-ideas] The async API of the future: Reactors

On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:11:07 +0100 Richard Oudkerk shibturn@gmail.com wrote:

One could use IOCP or select/poll/... to implement an API which looks like

class AsyncHub: def read(self, fd, nbytes): """Return future which is ready when read is complete"""

 def write(self, fd, buf):
     """Return future which is ready when write is complete"""

 def accept(self, fd):
     """Return future which is ready when connection is accepted"""

 def connect(self, fd, address):
     """Return future which is ready when connection has succeeded"""

 def wait(self, timeout=None):
     """Wait till a future is ready; return list of ready futures"""

A reactor could then be built on top of such a hub.

I suppose the reactor would handle higher-level stuff such as TLS?

Regards

Antoine.