Queuing mechanism that is poll/select'able ?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <txk4rzo9o4j.fsf at vortex.ukshells.co.uk>,
Chris Ebenezer  <chriseb at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>I'm re-writing some python code to use active objects (i.e multiple
>threads).  I have been looking at using the Queue class as a means to
>send messages between different objects.  
>
>However, the one problem is that since the Queue class isn't based
>around a unix abstraction that is descriptor based, it doesn't support
>select().  Since this is the only mechanism that is relatively
>ubiquitous in unix for the use of polling, this causes problems when
>you try to use Queue's in-conjunction with other 'eventing objects'
>like sockets etc.

What might well be easier than what you're suggesting is to spawn off
threads to handle the external events (sockets); those threads then
interact with the standard Queue object(s).
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