[Python-ideas] Add a generic async IO poller/reactor to select module

[Devin Jeanpierre]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Frankly, I don't think this deserves a PEP at all, or even to consider
> one *yet*.
>
> Building a new API and a new library from scratch seems a frail
> comparison to testing
> a library in the real world, it having real uses, and then being
> incorporated into the
> stdlib. The problem here, of course, is that all the real-world
> solutions (ie, Twisted)
> include far more than the reactor.

To be fair, PEP-3153 was built based largely on experience from the
Twisted project and input from Twisted developers, who know what they
are talking about and how to build a useful system. The entire
transport/protocol separation is lifted directly out of it.

-- Devin