"Portability" (was: How to create a Unix Domain Socket?)

[Andrew Kuchling]

claird at starbase.neosoft.com (Cameron Laird) writes:
> My personal emotional reaction is that Python
> shouldn't be like Perl, and shouldn't just expose
> the OS run-time; it should build in a portability
> layer for strftime(), socket(), and other notor-
> ious black sheep.  I suppose I'll just leave it

One risk of this approach is that you wind up following Java's
least-common-denominator approach.  Not every platform supports
select()?  Then you can't use select() on any platform at all...

--amk