select.poll and ppoll

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:38:52 +1100, "Steven D'Aprano" writes:
>Using Python 2.6, don't hate me.

>Technically, *I* don't want this, it's one of my work-colleagues. He says:
>
>"My high-level goal is to run a callback function whenever the alsa mixer 
>level changes.  The C alsa API provides snd_mixer_elem_set_callback, but the 
>Python API (import alsaaudio) seems to need me to get poll(2) descriptors"

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>Steve
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Do you need alsa-mixer or would pulse-audio work for you?
Would this: https://github.com/mk-fg/pulseaudio-mixer-cli
do the job?

Laura (alsa-mixer hater)