Dec. 19, 2005
4:23 p.m.
Andrew Bennetts wrote:
Reading the python documentation states that the "fcntl" module is available on Unix only. - Does that mean, that this example is working on Unix only or what am I missing?
That's right, unfortunately. That example uses the twisted.internet.stdio module, which relies on fcntl (and the ability to pass the stdin/stdout file descriptors to select), which isn't available on Windows.
And unfortunately I failed to notice this while writing the book. Apologies to Windows users. Is it really impossible to do asynchronous IO on stdin/out on Windows? Anybody have any ideas for working around the lack of fcntl? I'd be happy to contribute to an effort to make twisted.internet.stdio run on Windows. Abe