Direct interaction with subprocess - the curse of blocking I/O

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.2320.1246302955.8015.python-list at python.org>, Pascal 
Chambon wrote:

> I met the issue : select() works only on windows ...

No it doesn't. It works only on sockets on Windows, on Unix/Linux it works 
with all file descriptors <http://docs.python.org/library/select.html>.