select.poll() and WSAPoll

[Christian Heimes]

inhahe schrieb:
> select.poll isn't supported on Windows, because Windows doesn't have such a 
> feature, or at least it didn't until Vista.  Vista implements the same thing 
> but called  WSAPoll, an article is here 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/wndp/archive/2006/10/26/WSAPoll.aspx
> I hope that the next edition of Python supports select.poll on Vista, or at 
> least that someone writes a third-party module fo it. As much as I'd love to 
> do it myself, it's probably beyond me.. i've never used poll before nor 
> written a Python extension.  also, i don't have Vista.

Python 2.6 and 3.0 doesn't have support for WSAPoll so far. I don't have
Vista on my dev box so I can't add WSAPoll as I've added epoll and
kqueue for 2.6.

I don't think we can officially support WPAPoll since Python 2.6 is
suppose to run on Windows 2000 and XP, too.

Christian