On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Martin Teichmann <lkb.teichm...@gmail.com> wrote: > We would need to know whether the file descriptor we > read from was created as non-blocking, or whether it was an actual > file, and how fast the file storage is for this file (SSD: maybe fine, > Network: to slow, magnetic disk: dunno). All of this is unfortunately > not a Python issue, but an issue for the underlying operating system.
Probably not worth trying to categorize those reads by source. However, one important feature would be: coming from cache, or actually waiting for content? With pipes and sockets, this is a very significant difference, and if you've done a peek() or select() to find that there is content there, a read() should be perfectly legal, even in an asyncio world. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
