Charles-François Natali added the comment:
Alright, I've updated the patch to have a distinct selectors module,
and with Guido's comments.
Before I post it for final review, I have three more questions:
1) In the documentation, I don't know how to best refer to files
object registered: is "file descriptor" OK, or is it too low-level?
Otherwise I'd be tempted to use just "file", but then this doesn't
include sockets, pipes, etc. Or maybe "file object"/"file-like
object"?
2) currently, the select() method returns a list of
(<file>, <event>, <data>)
But the opaque "data" object is optional, which means that many user
might end up doing:
for file, event, data in selector.select():
if event & READ_EVENT:
file.recv(1024)
# don't use data
i.e. have to unpack it for no reason.
Would it make sense to return (<key>, <event>) instead?
This way the user has all the interesting information, and can do:
for key, event in selector.select():
if event & READ_EVENT:
key.file.recv(1024)
or
os.read(key.fd, 1024)
3) Concerning get_info(): right now the signature is:
get_info(): fileobj -> (events, data)
Wouldn't it be better to just return the whole key instead, which
contains all the relevant information (events, data, fd and fileobj).
Then we should probably also rename the method to get_key()?
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