Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> wrote: > 3. It is nice to be able to abort a read or write that hangs (for whatever > reason). Killing a thread with pthread_cancel or TerminateThread is not > recommended.
While "graceful timeout" is easy to do on Unix, using fcntl.fcntl or signal.alarm, on Windows it requires overlapped I/O. This means the normal Python file objects cannot be used for this purpose on Windows. Sturla -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
