Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > There is a real need of non-blocking operation, but I now think that > adding a set_blocking() method is not the right solution. First, as > said by Charles-Francois: O_NONBLOCK flag has no effect on regular > files. Second, there is no portable way to declare a file as "non > blocking": as said by Tim, it is complelty different on Windows (I/O > Completion ports).
That it's not portable is actually a good reason to add a helper function or method. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue949667> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
