[Python-Dev] asyncore fixes in Python 2.6 broke Zope's version of medusa

[Antoine Pitrou]

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing <at> canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
> 
> Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> 
> > What I would like to see is a module that provides a low-level API
> > for doing cross-platform asynchronous IO.  The two necessary parts
> > are:
> > 
> >     * a wrapper that allows non-blocking reads and writes on
> >       channels (sockets, file descriptors, serial ports, etc) 

For starters, since py3k is supposed to support non-blocking IO, why not write a
portable API to make a raw file or socket IO object non-blocking?
(I'm only suggesting it here, I don't intend to do this myself)