[python-win32] win32event.WaitForMultipleObjects and sockets

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Thu May 26 19:17:45 CEST 2011


David Markey wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Sorry for the n00b question...
>
> With win32event.WaitForMultipleObjects, I dont seem to be able to give
> it a plain socket object. How can I create a PyHANDLE from a socket?

Sockets and file handles are not among the list of objects that
WaitForMultipleObjects accepts.
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms687025.aspx

Are you trying to do asynchronous socket I/O?  You should probably be
using the built-in Python mechanism for that, in the "asyncore" module.

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



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