select() on WinXP

[Thomas Heller]

grebekel at gmail.com schrieb:
> I'm using it for sockets, it works on linux but not on Windows. The
> actual code is something like (server side):
> 
> r, w, e = select.select(self.clients, [], self.clients, 5)
> 
> where self.clients is a list of accepted sockets.
> 
The docs for select.select say:

Empty sequences are allowed, but acceptance of three empty sequences is platform-dependent.
(It is known to work on Unix but not on Windows.) 

Thomas