Andrew Bennetts wrote: > Daniel Stutzbach wrote: > [...] >> If you really need to communicate with multiple subprocesses (which so far >> has >> not been suggested as a motivating example), then you can use select(). > > Not portably. select() on windows only works on sockets.
In addition, select() is exactly what the linked recipe uses to implement non-blocking I/O for subprocesses on non-Windows platforms. I agree the actual use cases need to be better articulated in any RFE that is actually posted, but a cleanly encapsulated approach to non-blocking communication with subprocesses over stdin/out/err certainly sounds like something that could reasonably be added to the subprocess module. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
