[Python-Dev] PEP 3145 (With Contents)

[anatoly techtonik]

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:

> I'm really not sure what this PEP is trying to get at given that it
> contains no examples and sounds from the descriptions to be adding a
> complicated api on top of something that already, IMNSHO, has too much it
> (subprocess.Popen).
>
> Regardless, any user can use the stdout/err/in file objects with their own
> code that handles them asynchronously (yes that can be painful but that is
> what is required for _any_ socket or pipe I/O you don't want to block on).
>

And how to use stdout/stderr/in asynchronously in cross-platform manner?
IIUC the problem is that every read is blocking.


> It *sounds* to me like this entire PEP could be written and released as a
> third party module on PyPI that offers a subprocess.Popen subclass adding
> some more convenient non-blocking APIs.  That's where I'd start if I were
> interested in this as a future feature.
>

I've rewritten the PEP based on how do I understand the code. I don't know
how to update it and how to comply with open documentation license, so I
just attach it and add PEPs list to CC. Me too has a feeling that the PEP
should be stripped of additional high level API until low level
functionality is well understood and accepted.

-- 
anatoly t.
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