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diff --git a/Doc/library/selectors.rst b/Doc/library/selectors.rst index 98377c890f..56cfc6bdb7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/selectors.rst +++ b/Doc/library/selectors.rst @@ -45,12 +45,13 @@ Classes hierarchy:: +-- SelectSelector +-- PollSelector +-- EpollSelector + +-- DevpollSelector +-- KqueueSelector In the following, *events* is a bitwise mask indicating which I/O events should -be waited for on a given file object. It can be a combination of the constants -below: +be waited for on a given file object. It can be a combination of the modules +constants below: +-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ | Constant | Meaning | @@ -158,6 +159,12 @@ below: timeout has elapsed if the current process receives a signal: in this case, an empty list will be returned. + .. versionchanged:: 3.5 + The selector is now retried with a recomputed timeout when interrupted + by a signal if the signal handler did not raise an exception (see + :pep:`475` for the rationale), instead of returning an empty list + of events before the timeout. + .. method:: close() Close the selector. @@ -207,6 +214,16 @@ below: This returns the file descriptor used by the underlying :func:`select.epoll` object. +.. class:: DevpollSelector() + + :func:`select.devpoll`-based selector. + + .. method:: fileno() + + This returns the file descriptor used by the underlying + :func:`select.devpoll` object. + + .. versionadded:: 3.5 .. class:: KqueueSelector() |