Re: select.poll and ppoll

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In a message of Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:38:52 +1100, "Steven D'Aprano" writes:
>Using Python 2.6, don't hate me.

>Technically, *I* don't want this, it's one of my work-colleagues. He says:
>
>"My high-level goal is to run a callback function whenever the alsa mixer 
>level changes.  The C alsa API provides snd_mixer_elem_set_callback, but the 
>Python API (import alsaaudio) seems to need me to get poll(2) descriptors"

>-- 
>Steve
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>https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Do you need alsa-mixer or would pulse-audio work for you?
Would this: https://github.com/mk-fg/pulseaudio-mixer-cli
do the job?

Laura (alsa-mixer hater)

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select.poll and ppoll Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-10-22 16:38 +1100
  Re: select.poll and ppoll Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-22 00:30 -0700
  Re: select.poll and ppoll Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-10-22 11:07 +0200
  Re: select.poll and ppoll Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-22 14:18 +0300
    Re: select.poll and ppoll Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-10-25 22:30 +1100
      Re: select.poll and ppoll Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-25 21:21 +0200
        Re: select.poll and ppoll Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-25 21:23 +0200

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