Using select([sys.stdin]) on windows xp

[Daniel Dittmar]

John Taylor wrote:
> According the the Python docs:
> On Windows, the underlying select() function is provided by the
> WinSock library, and does not handle file desciptors that don't
> originate from WinSock.

The Win32 functions are
- WaitForSingleObject (to wait with a short timeout)
- GetStdHandle (to get at the Win32 handle for sys.stdin)

Try Mark Hammonds Win32 extension if these functions are exported to Python.

Another possibility would be to use threads.

Daniel