From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-04-24T05:20:01+09:00
Subject: Re: StringIO


Hal Fulton said:
> But I tried to use #select with a StringIO and it complained.
> (If this is unreasonable, tell me, but it's not obvious to me.)

Select is based on the OS select system call which requires file numbers
to work.  Since a StringIO object is not connected to an OS file number,
I'm not surprised select didn't work for it.

-- 
-- Jim Weirich     jim@weirichhouse.org    http://onestepback.org
-----------------------------------------------------------------
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)