Summary of threading for experienced non-Python programmers?

[Paul Rubin]

"Diez B. Roggisch" <deets at nospam.web.de> writes:
> > I appreciate the droll sense of humor, but do you mean to
> > assert that asyncore.py supports asynchronous disk file I/O?
> 
> As I said in an answer to the OP, I somewhat glossed over the "file"
> and just read IO. And under Posix, python *does* support asynchronous
> IO using the select-module. 

Select does nonblocking i/o but I think Donn is interpreting
"asynchronous i/o" as having a narrower meaning.  See:

  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-async/

for some info.