[Python-Dev] epoll implementation

Ganesan Rajagopal rganesan at myrealbox.com
Sat May 27 07:13:07 CEST 2006


>>>>> Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes:

>> 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.
>> 
> Of course that would mean establishing which *was* the best available 
> which, as we've seen this week, may not be easy.

There is a C aync event notification library called libevent which wraps
kqueue, epoll, /dev/poll etc and provides a unified interface (See 
http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/).

Ganesan


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