Way to unblock sys.stdin.readline() call

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:35:02 -0700 (PDT), joamag <joamag at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Jun 21, 4:46 pm, Cédric Lucantis <o... at no-log.org> wrote:
>> Le Saturday 21 June 2008 15:26:53 joamag, vous avez écrit :
>>
>> > HI,
>>
>> > Is there any possible way to unblock the sys.stdin.readline() call
>> > from a different thread.
>> > Something like sys.stdin.write() but that would actually work ...
>> > something to put characters in the stdin...
>>
>> Do you mean setting stdin in non-blocking mode ? On unix you can do it with
>> the fcntl module (you'll find more infos in the libc docs) :
>>
>> fcntl.fcntl(sys.stdin, fcntl.F_SETFL, os.O_NONBLOCK)
>>
>> and catch IOErrors with errno = EAGAIN. But I don't know how to do it in a
>> portable way, suggestions welcome :)
>>
>> --
>> Cédric Lucantis
>
>Thanks for the advice that's a way of solving my problem, but I really
>need a portable way of doing it...
>
>The application I’m build is meant to be run in more platforms than
>Unix ... so I really need a portable way of doing that or something
>else that unblocks the read call in the stdin

Twisted supports asynchronous handling of stdin on both POSIX and Windows.

See stdiodemo.py and stdin.py under the Miscellaenous section at
http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/examples/

Jean-Paul