Windows - select.select, timeout and KeyboardInterrupt

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Fri May 7 15:25:56 EDT 2010


On 7 May 2010 15:36, Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rodola at gmail.com> wrote:
> You can easily avoid this by setting a lower timeout when calling
> asyncore.loop(), like 1 second or less (for example, Twisted uses
> 0.001 secs).

Thanks, that's what I was considering.

> Actually there's no reason for asyncore to have such a high default
> timeout (30 seconds).

I assumed it was to avoid busy waiting.

> I think this should be signaled on the bug tracker.

If a longer timeout doesn't have issues with busy waiting, then I'd agree.
Paul



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