Python on the AS/400?

[kragen at pobox.com]

Per Gummedal <p.g at figu.no> writes:
> 03.04.2001, 04:12, you wrote:
> > I have a Python program I'd like to run on an AS/400.
> >
> > - does the AS/400 CPython port have select.select?  Does it have any
> >   kind of reasonable performance?
> 
> The python port does not support select.select(OS400 does not have popen).
> It does support sockets and threads.

Is there anything analogous to select(2) for sockets in OS/400?  (I
would think so --- lots of old IBM mainframe systems used similar
things.)

> > - how stable is the AS/400 CPython port?
> 
> It is beta and it don't run all the test cases.

Thanks for all the info!