On 5/23/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Kennedy wrote: > > I am writing to seek information about the socket.fileno() method, and > > opinions on how best to implement it on jython. > > I would hope that the new i/o system will make it > unnecessary to use fileno() in portable code. It's > really a unix-specific thing. > > > So the question I'm asking is: Does anyone know of existing cpython code > > which relies on the return value from socket.fileno() being an integer? > > Or code that would break if it were returned a socket instance instead > > of an integer? > > If you only pass it to other things supported on > that platform that use filenos, probably not. > > BTW, you can pass socket objects directly to > select() anyway. I'd regard this as the > current portable way to use sockets and select. > The man page says that this works via the fileno() > method, but it doesn't have to be implemented that > way -- select() could be taught to recognise > socket objects natively.
I want to emphasize this option. Passing the socket to select should be more portable than using fileno(). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
