[Python-ideas] non-blocking buffered I/O

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Richard Oudkerk <shibturn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/10/2012 11:29pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if this could be done by varying the transports by platform?
>> Not too many people are going to write new transports -- there just
>> aren't that many options. And those that do might be doing something
>> platform-specific anyway. It shouldn't be that hard to come up with a
>> transport abstraction that lets protocol implementations work
>> regardless of whether it's a UNIX style transport or a Windows style
>> transport. UNIX systems with IOCP support could use those too.
>
>
> Yes, having separate implementations of the transport layer should work.
>
> But I think it would be cleaner to put all the platform specific stuff in
> the pollster, and make the pollster poll-for-completion rather than
> poll-for-readiness.  (Is this the "proactor pattern"?)  That seems to be the
> direction libevent has moved in.

Interesting. I'd like to hear what Twisted thinks of this. (I will
find out next week. :-)

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)