[Python-Dev] Draft PEP to make file objects support non-blocking mode.

[Greg Ewing]

> On 18 March 2005, Donovan Baarda said:

>>Many Python library methods and classes like select.select(), os.popen2(),
>>and subprocess.Popen() return and/or operate on builtin file objects.
>>However even simple applications of these methods and classes require the
>>files to be in non-blocking mode.

I don't agree with that. There's no need to use non-blocking
I/O when using select(), and in fact things are less confusing
if you don't.

>>The read method's current behaviour needs to be documented, so its actual
>>behaviour can be used to differentiate between an empty non-blocking read,
>>and EOF.  This means recording that IOError(EAGAIN) is raised for an empty
>>non-blocking read.

Isn't that unix-specific? The file object is supposed to
provide a more or less platform-independent interface, I
thought.

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