select.select()

[Bhanu Karthik]

On Friday, 22 November 2013 18:15:10 UTC-8, Roy Smith  wrote:
> In article <b8d42424-e0ab-4595-9c87-25e5c1b53349 at googlegroups.com>,
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>  Bhanu Karthik <bhanukarthik2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > please help me.. what does the following line do?
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> > read_sockets,write_sockets,error_sockets = 
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> > select.select(CONNECTION_LIST,[],[])
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> This is a little tricky.
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> First,read the docs at http://docs.python.org/2/library/select.html.  
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> There's a lot of complicated stuff there, but just concentrate on the 
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> description of the select.select() call for now.
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> Imagine a process which has a lot of network connections open.  A great 
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> example would be something like a MUD (Multi User Dungeon).  You've got 
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> one server process(*) and a bunch of clients which have all made TCP 
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> connections over individual sockets.
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> Each client will be sending commands asynchronously, and the server 
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> needs to handle this.  You need some way to figure out which of those 
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> sockets have something that's been sent to you (which you need to 
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> process) and which are just sitting idle.  That's where select() comes 
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> in.  It gives you a way to say, "Here's a list of sockets.  Sleep until 
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> one of them has something available for me to read, and let me know 
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> which one."
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> One bit of complication is that you can also check for sockets which are 
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> ready to be written on, and sockets which have some sort of error 
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> condition.  That's why the call returns a 3-tuple.  But, for now, let's 
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> just concentrate on reading.
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> Here's a very simplistic server which uses select():
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> import socket
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> import select
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> sock = socket.socket()
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> sock.bind(('localhost', 23000))
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> sock.listen(10)
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> # Accept four connections.
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> connections = []
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> for i in range(4):
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>     s, addr = sock.accept()
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>     print "Got connection from %s" % str(addr)
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>     connections.append(s)
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> while True:
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>     readable, _, _ = select.select(connections, [], [])
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>     print "ready for reading: %s" % readable
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>     for s in readable:
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>         data = s.recv(1024)
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>         print "Read from %s: %s" % (s, data)
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> You can write a little client which connects to this (I've got one I 
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> used for testing, but I'll leave it to you to write one yourself as an 
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> exercise).  Connect four clients, and have them send some input in 
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> random order.
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> Actually, this server has a bug (which you'll discover as soon as you 
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> close one of the four connection), but it should serve to illustrate the 
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> basic concept.
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> (*) I'm not sure if real MUDs are programmed this way, but it's a 
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> plausible architecture.  For simplicity sake, I'm assuming a 
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> single-threaded server.

Thank you for your reply.your reply helped me figure out concept.