question on select

[Gerhard Häring]

In article <lohjsuc5n97g8guh7jht4e8b4t909rdgeq at 4ax.com>, Gonçalo Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know that select does not work on file objects in the Windows
> platform. But does select work on sys.stdin? On the Windows platform,
> that is.

Python 2.2.2 (#37, Oct 14 2002, 17:02:34) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> import sys
>>> type(sys.stdin)
<type 'file'>
>>> sys.stdin.fileno()
0
>>>

Does that answer your question? ;-)

stdin/stdout/stderr *are* file objects.
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