[Python-Dev] Support for async read/write (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Oct 20 00:48:14 CEST 2010

Also, the canonical way to do file I/O in Python 3 is the io lib, therefore it would be a bit of a shame to have separate, non-integrated aio* functions.

I disagree. We also have posix.open, posix.dup, etc. We always expose POSIX functions in the posix module (except for the socket functions, unfortunately, and a few other exceptions), and I see no reason to break with this tradition. The io module should be thought of as sitting on top of the posix module (and it initially was).

Also, since the io lib is already supposed to support non-blocking IO, perhaps it would be valuable to stress this support and propose any interesting patches for fixing and/or improving it.

I think that's entirely independent.

Regards, Martin

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