Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: > Also, one must be careful with file access, which is necessarily > blocking on linux (unless Python takes Linux's AIO API into use, which > would be groundbreaking).
AIO is a possibility for i/o on an already-open file and I think there may be other ways to do it too. But there appears to be no way to open a file without potentially blocking, potentially for a long time on a busy hard disk or a remote file system. GHC and Erlang both use a thread pool to deal with opening disk files. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
