[Tutor] Re: Asynch i/o in Python ?

Lee Harr missive at hotmail.com
Sun Sep 28 12:45:49 EDT 2003


>Actually, asyncore uses select() which is *not* really asynch. I was
>hoping that there is a module that wraps around "aio".
>


I am not really familiar with these modules, but asyncore.loop()
can take a use_poll parameter to make it use poll instead of
select.

>From the select module page, it looks like poll is not available
on all operating systems, but is available on most unix systems
and can provide better scalability for network servers.

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