From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-04-24T05:29:48+09:00
Subject: Re: StringIO

Jim Weirich wrote:
> 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.

OK, sure, that makes sense. I was thinking purely in terms of
delay -- thinking there would always be a zero wait time.

Thanks,
Hal