> I appreciate the droll sense of humor, but do you mean to > assert that asyncore.py supports asynchronous disk file I/O?
As I said in an answer to the OP, I somewhat glossed over the "file" and just read IO. And under Posix, python *does* support asynchronous IO using the select-module. If you can faciliate that using the asynchore module I can't say, but the question was if python as whole supported async IO out of the box - asyncore & twisted I mention as references of implementations using that. > What that means to me is, you queue a disk read, and there's > an event flag or something that you can wait for before you > come back to find the data in your buffer. (That's how I > remember it from the old days, when it mattered a little, > though not enough that I ever remember actually doing it, > and 20 years later I guess the incentive is even less.) Which is exactly what select allows you to do. You pass a set of file-descriptors and are notified if data arrives or has been successfully transmitted. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
