Summary of threading for experienced non-Python programmers?

[sturlamolden]

It did *not* say that it supports every existing, more powerful and
generally better asynchronous mechanism supported by any OS out there.
Even though it would certainly be nice if it did

Python's standard library should have an asynch module that uses aio
on Linux and i/o completion ports on Windows. It should work with
files and tcp sockets alike.

 

[Paul Rubin]

Python's standard library should have an asynch module that uses aio
on Linux and i/o completion ports on Windows. It should work with
files and tcp sockets alike.

Lately I'm hearing that Linux's aio implementation doesn't work very
well yet. It is fairly recent. It's possible that BSD's or Solaris's
versions are better.