I am a newbie to python. I am writing a client application, I need to
read query results from the server. Mostly I'll have a file object for
the connection to the server. So I use read() or readline() to get the
response. But since these are blocking calls, I have to use a seperate
thread for the input reading. But then I have another problem, my input
thread running in the following loop
while not quit:
str = ins.readline()
.... process the response
so I can't terminate the thread when it's blocking in the readline()
until the connection is closed. So looks like I need to use non-blocking
IO such as select() or poll(). But since I need this application to be
cross-platform, and these are not well supported on Windows, I don't
know what to do.