Tal Einat <taleinat+pyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:
It seems that select() does indeed support arbitrary iterables through the use of PySequence_Fast(). The commit where this was introduced, by Brett Cannon from 2003 (62dba4c2775adfb5a5a97ca012a3ab00c4e28597), doesn't seems to have intended this though: "select.select() now accepts a sequence (as defined by PySequence_Fast()) for its first three arguments." However, regardless of whether this is intentional, it appears that this has been this way for a very long time. So it seems to me that we should document this behavior, as suggested here, since any change to this would be an unacceptable backwards-incompatibility. ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +docs@python, taleinat _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue38580> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
