[Python-ideas] asyncore: included batteries don't fit

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 13:04:00 -0400
Mike Graham <mikegraham at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:
> >> Python's standard library doesn't contain in interface to I/O Completion
> >> Ports. I think a common event loop system is a good reason to add IOCP
> >> if somebody is up for the challenge.
> >>
> >> Would you prefer an IOCP wrapper in the stdlib or your own version?
> >> Twisted has its own Cython based wrapper, some other libraries use a
> >> libevent-based solution.
> >
> > What's an IOCP?
> 
> It's the non-crappy select equivalent on Windows.

Except that it's not exactly an equivalent, it's a whole different
programming model ;)

(but I understand what you mean: it allows to do non-blocking I/O on an
arbitrary number of objects in parallel)

Regards

Antoine.


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