Is there a portable way to tell if data is available on a pipe?

[John Nagle]

Scott David Daniels wrote:
> John Nagle wrote:
>>    I need some way to find out if a pipe has data available for
>> a read without blocking if it does not.
> ...
>>  I'd like to avoid having a thread to manage each pipe, but if I
>> have to, so be it.
> 
> Well, without granting your wish, put a Queue.Queue "in front" of
> each pipe.  The per-pipe thread ...

    That's what I thought.  Oh, well.

				John Nagle