[Python-ideas] Add a generic async IO poller/reactor to select module

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 24 May, 2012, at 3:32, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote:
>>>> 
> 
> The handler is supposed to provide 3 methods:
> - handle_read_event
> - handle_write_event
> - handle_error_event
> 
> Users willing to support multiple event loops such as wx, gtk etc can do:
> 
>>>> while 1:
> ...       poller.poll(timeout=0.1, blocking=False)
> ...       otherpoller.poll()
> 
> 
> Basically, this would be the whole API.

Isn't this a limited version of asyncore? (poller.poll == asyncore.loop, the handler is a subset of asyncore.dispatcher).

Ronald
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