[Tutor] pattern matching is too slow

[Vinay Reddy]

> Reading through other posts, looks like you got somewhare with the
> nonblocking IO. Can you comment on what you did to get it working? The
> whole fcntl thing?

I am able to use non-blocking I/O, but I am unable to get the mplayer
status messages. It's just not there in the mplayer output pipe. I
just posted on the mplayer community regarding this.

To use non-blocking I/O: 
fcntl.fcntl(<file descriptor>, fcntl.F_SETFL, os.O_NONBLOCK) is
enough. If there's nothing to read from a pipe, instead of blocking,
an exception is generated.

Regards,
Vinay