[Python-Dev] asyncore fixes in Python 2.6 broke Zope's version of medusa

Thu Mar 5 23:43:06 CET 2009

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing <at> canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
>> Neil Schemenauer wrote:
>> > What I would like to see is a module that provides a low-level API
> > for doing cross-platform asynchronous IO. The two necessary parts
> > are:
> > 
> > * a wrapper that allows non-blocking reads and writes on
> > channels (sockets, file descriptors, serial ports, etc) 

For starters, since py3k is supposed to support non-blocking IO, why not write a
portable API to make a raw file or socket IO object non-blocking?
(I'm only suggesting it here, I don't intend to do this myself)