Class poll

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Polling object to poll open sockets for events.

Instance Methods

__init__(self)
Initialize the instance.

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unregister(self, f)
Unregister a socket from being polled.

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list of (int, int)

poll(self, timeout=None)
Poll the registered sockets for events.

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Instance Variables

list of int rlist
the socket file descriptors waiting for data

list of int wlist
the socket file descriptors waiting to send data

Method Details

Parameters:

f (int or socket.socket) - the file descriptor, or the socket to get the file descriptor from
t (int) - the events to poll for

Unregister a socket from being polled.

Parameters:

f (int or socket.socket) - the file descriptor, or the socket to get the file descriptor from

Poll the registered sockets for events.

Parameters:

timeout (int) - number of seconds to wait before timing out and returning

Returns: list of (int, int)

the socket file descriptors and event types that have occurred on them