non-blocking sys.stdin.read() on win32?

[Jason Orendorff]

Michal Wallace wrote:
> I want to just be able to call select() on sys.stdin and
> then, if appropriate, read more than one line of, but it
> doesn't let me, because on win32, python's select() only
> works for sockets.

Use two threads: one with a read/send loop and one with
a recv/write loop.

Another possibility is win32event.  But that can get rather
involved.

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