Sockets for a file

[Irmen de Jong]

Teja Sastry wrote:

>   I would like to know if we can create a unix socket for a file (like 
> we do in C or C++ with  struct sockaddr_un)
>   I want to wait on a file in python and trigger some function if the 
> file gets some data written in it by another program.

I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but Python allows you to
use the select call on sockets and file objects (in fact, any
object with a fileno() method). See the select module.

BTW: this doesn't work on Windows.

Irmen