[Python-ideas] Tulip / PEP 3156 - subprocess events

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Richard Oudkerk <shibturn at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 16/01/2013 6:21pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>> I'm eagerly awaiting Richard's response. AFAIK handles on Windows *are*
>> more general than sockets...
>>
>
> I would like to modify subprocess on Windows to use file-like objects
> which wrap overlapped pipe handles.  Then doing async work with subprocess
> would become relatively straight forward, and does not really require tulip
> or IOCP.


But when you want to use it in the context of an event loop would it still
be *possible* to hook it up to that using a transport or
add_reader/add_writer?

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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