select.poll() and WSAPoll

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Tue, 6 May 2008 08:36:28 -0400, inhahe <inhahe at gmail.com> wrote:
>select.poll isn't supported on Windows, because Windows doesn't have such a
>feature, or at least it didn't until Vista.  Vista implements the same thing
>but called  WSAPoll, an article is here
>http://blogs.msdn.com/wndp/archive/2006/10/26/WSAPoll.aspx
>I hope that the next edition of Python supports select.poll on Vista, or at
>least that someone writes a third-party module fo it. As much as I'd love to
>do it myself, it's probably beyond me.. i've never used poll before nor
>written a Python extension.  also, i don't have Vista.
>Thanks
>

If you use Twisted, then you can use I/O Completion Ports, which are even
better than WSAPoll, and your code will also work with KQueue on BSD or
EPoll on Linux without any changes. :)

Jean-Paul