On 6 May, 14:18, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 May 2008 08:36:28 -0400, inhahe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >select.poll isn't supported on Windows, because Windows doesn't have such a > >feature, or at least it didn't until Vista. Vista implements the same thing > >but called WSAPoll, an article is here > >http://blogs.msdn.com/wndp/archive/2006/10/26/WSAPoll.aspx > >I hope that the next edition of Python supports select.poll on Vista, or at > >least that someone writes a third-party module fo it. As much as I'd love to > >do it myself, it's probably beyond me.. i've never used poll before nor > >written a Python extension. also, i don't have Vista. > >Thanks > > If you use Twisted, then you can use I/O Completion Ports, which are even > better than WSAPoll, and your code will also work with KQueue on BSD or > EPoll on Linux without any changes. :) > > Jean-Paul
The current docs describe the I/O Completion Ports reactor as "extremely experimental". http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/choosing-reactor.html#auto8 Is that overly conservative or is it as bleeding edge as it sounds? (IIRC there have been caveats like this on the Windows reactors for a while) Giles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list