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Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM?

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From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM?
Date Thu, 12 Nov 2015 22:38:49 +1100
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 11/12/2015 2:37 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> My understanding of async is that it creates an event loop. In which case
>>> the loop has no chance to run within a block of code that computes
>>> anything,
>>> is that correct?
>>
>>
>> This is correct. At its simplest, asynchronous code is an abstraction
>> over the select() call,
>
>
> True on Unix-derived systems, where 'select' includes the various
> derivatives.  It is also an abstraction over the Windows completion calls,
> which are quite different.  The latter is why one must generally use a
> different event loop on Windows.  The point is that asyncio provides an
> *abstraction* such that after choosing the event loop, the rest of one's
> code is os-agnostic.

I've never done that kind of thing on Windows, so I'm not sure how it
works; it's still broadly based on I/O availability, right? And
ultimately, it comes down to "go back to the event loop so others can
run".

ChrisA

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  Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-11-11 18:30 +0200
    Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-11 17:06 +0000
      Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-11-11 20:03 +0200
        Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-11 22:42 +0000
      Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-11-11 19:42 -0500
  Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-11 20:37 -0500
    Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-11-12 08:14 +0200
      Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-11-12 07:43 +0100
        Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 18:37 +1100
        Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-12 05:15 -0500
        Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 22:38 +1100
        Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-12 09:01 -0500
      Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-12 07:22 +0000
        Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-11-12 10:15 +0200
    Re: cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-12 06:58 +0000
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