# Testing select module from test.test_support import verbose, reap_children import select import os # test some known error conditions try: rfd, wfd, xfd = select.select(1, 2, 3) except TypeError: pass else: print 'expected TypeError exception not raised' class Nope: pass class Almost: def fileno(self): return 'fileno' try: rfd, wfd, xfd = select.select([Nope()], [], []) except TypeError: pass else: print 'expected TypeError exception not raised' try: rfd, wfd, xfd = select.select([Almost()], [], []) except TypeError: pass else: print 'expected TypeError exception not raised' try: rfd, wfd, xfd = select.select([], [], [], 'not a number') except TypeError: pass else: print 'expected TypeError exception not raised' def test(): import sys if sys.platform[:3] in ('win', 'mac', 'os2', 'riscos'): if verbose: print "Can't test select easily on", sys.platform return cmd = 'for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do echo testing...; sleep 1; done' p = os.popen(cmd, 'r') for tout in (0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16) + (None,)*10: if verbose: print 'timeout =', tout rfd, wfd, xfd = select.select([p], [], [], tout) if (rfd, wfd, xfd) == ([], [], []): continue if (rfd, wfd, xfd) == ([p], [], []): line = p.readline() if verbose: print repr(line) if not line: if verbose: print 'EOF' break continue print 'Unexpected return values from select():', rfd, wfd, xfd p.close() reap_children() test()