[Python-Dev] epoll implementation

[Greg Ewing]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> roughly speaking, epoll is kqueue for linux.

There are many different select-like things around now
(select, poll, epoll, kqueue -- are there others?) and
random combinations of them seem to be available on any
given platform. This makes writing platform-independent
code that needs select-like functionality very awkward.

Rather than adding yet another platform-dependent module,
I'd like to see a unified Python interface in the stdlib
that uses whichever is the best one available.

--
Greg