The fact that partial reads/writes are possible without non-blocking mode changes things a fair bit. Also, the lack of fnctl support in Windows needs to be taken into account too.
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The lack of support on win32 for non-blocking mode, combined with the reduced need for it, makes adding a "setblocking" method undesirable.
I don't know what the best thing to do now is... I guess the readsome/writesome is probably best, but given that os.read/os.write is not that bad, perhaps it's best to just forget I even suggested this PEP :-)
My EUR 0.01 is that we should aim at a higher level of abstraction.
I really don't care Windows, Unix, Linux, WhateverOS provide me with a specific low level service. I care about the conceptual thing I'm trying to establish. Any abstraction that provides a means to express a solution more closely to that conceptual level is a winner.
--eric
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