select() problem, not timing out

[Donn Cave]

In article <300720041335392859%JBrouwersAtProphICyDotCom at no.spam.net>,
 Jean Brouwers <JBrouwersAtProphICyDotCom at no.spam.net> wrote:

> 1) The lists passed to select() must contain items the fileno() of the
> sockets, not the sockets themselves.  Same for the returned lists.

  >>> from select import select
  >>> from sys import stdin
  >>> select([stdin], [], [])

  ([<open file '<stdin>', mode 'r' at 0x110ef0>], [], [])


> 2) The last argument to select() is the timeout in seconds, a float. 
> Instead of 1, try 1.0.

  >>> select([stdin], [], [], 1)
  ([], [], [])


   Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu