Antoine Pitrou added the comment: About naming: it is true that the manpage for select() uses the wording "exceptional condition". But the Linux man page for poll() (and by extension epoll_wait()) does not use that wording, it says "There is urgent data to read". The POSIX man page for poll() says "High-priority data may be read without blocking".
I would not argue about this if this weren't for the fact that "exception" already has a different meaning in Python land. Re-using the term for something else is confusing. Since "urgent data" and "high-priority data" are already accepted elsewhere for the same concept, reusing one of them should be ok. ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30844> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
