[Python-ideas] The async API of the future

[Paul Moore]

On 3 November 2012 21:20, Richard Oudkerk <shibturn at gmail.com> wrote:
> The IOCP proactor does not support ssl (or ipv6) so main.py does not succeed
> in downloading from xkcd.com using ssl.  Using the other proactors it works
> correctly.
>
> The basic interface for the proactor looks like
>
>     class Proactor:
>         def recv(self, sock, n): ...
>         def send(self, sock, buf): ...
>         def connect(self, sock, address): ...
>         def accept(self, sock): ...
>
>         def poll(self, timeout=None): ...
>         def pollable(self): ...

I've just been looking at this, and from what I can see, am I right in
thinking that the IOCP support is *only* for sockets? (I'm not very
familiar with socket programming, so I had a bit of difficulty
following the code). In particular, it can't be used to register
non-socket file objects? From my understanding of the IOCP
documentation on MSDN, this is fundamental - IOCP can only be used on
HANDLE objects that have been opened with the FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED
flag, which is not used by "normal" Python IO objects like file
handles and pipes, so it will never be possible to poll these objects
using IOCP.

Just trying to make sure I understand the scope of this work...

Paul