hi the new i/o pep (3116) says the following: > In order to put an object in object in non-blocking mode, the user > must extract the fileno and do it by hand.
i remember the discussions of the subject, but it seems wrong to me. there are (only?) two common use cases for async IO: sockets and pipes. most other file-like-things don't make much sense when async, and that behavior is not supported on all platforms. still, pipes and sockets support this behavior almost by definition, sp it makes a lot of sense to me to have that be part of the interface, making it cross-platform. i have seen (and had to write) a lot of boilerplate, platform-specific code dealing with that... i'd love to have it removed with the new i/o library. -tomer _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
