[Python-Dev] Status of PEP 3145 - Asynchronous I/O for subprocess.popen

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 09:09:45 CET 2014


On 28 March 2014 05:09, Josiah Carlson <josiah.carlson at gmail.com> wrote:
> So yeah. Someone want to make a decision? Tell me to write the docs, I will.
> Tell me to go take a long walk off a short pier, I'll thank you for your
> time and leave you alone.

I had a need for this a few years ago. It's messy to do on Windows
(ctypes callouts to PeekNamedPipe to check if you can read from the
process without blocking). So I would like to see a recipe for this,
(even if it's likely to be another few years before I ever need it
again :-)).

Paul


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