[New-bugs-announce] [issue15032] Provide a select.select implemented using select.poll

[Gregory P. Smith]

New submission from Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org>:

Many random bits of the standard library were originally written using select.select.  This is an ancient API that is available everywhere, but these days you'd be hard pressed to find _any_ system that does not implement the superior poll() API which does not suffer from the file descriptor limits problem of select().

A select.select() work-a-like should be possible to write that is implemented using poll.poll().

I am attaching my untested work in progress version of something like that as I don't have time to work on this further at the moment.  Someone else can pick it up if desired. (sorry about the code being in Google style rather than PEP-8)

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files: poll_select-gps001.txt
messages: 162498
nosy: gregory.p.smith
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Provide a select.select implemented using select.poll
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file25861/poll_select-gps001.txt

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