Gabriel Mesquita Cangussu added the comment:
Terry,
About your question, "Isn't there some other way to asynchronously read/file
files, as opposed to sockets and pipes, on Windows?", that is exactly the
problem I was trying to overcome, specifically for reading the stdin.
On my
New submission from Gabriel Mesquita Cangussu:
The documentation of asyncio specifies that the methods connect_read_pipe and
connect_write_pipe are available on Windows with the ProactorEventLoop. The
documentation then says that those methods accept file-like objects on the pipe
parameter