>> But in python eventually stdout.readline() hangs. This is a real >> nuisance: why can't it just return None? > > Because that would be quite annoying because most of the time people want > blocking behavior.
Just an afterthought: do people prefer the blocking behaviour because blocking until there's something to read is more economical of computer resources than polling for a non-null read (what I was trying to do, in effect)? The problem with polling is you need a minimum of 2 threads to do anything useful: it is quite inconvenient to block in the main thread. -- O.L. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
