Greg Ewing wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > >>roughly speaking, epoll is kqueue for linux. > > > There are many different select-like things around now > (select, poll, epoll, kqueue -- are there others?) and > random combinations of them seem to be available on any > given platform. This makes writing platform-independent > code that needs select-like functionality very awkward. > > Rather than adding yet another platform-dependent module, > I'd like to see a unified Python interface in the stdlib > that uses whichever is the best one available. > Of course that would mean establishing which *was* the best available which, as we've seen this week, may not be easy.
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