Re: selecting sockets and serials

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Thijs Schreijer
<thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:
>
> So far I've been using visual studio, but would switching to cygwin or the
> likes be a workaround to make it work on windows?

One way would be to use an async serial interface. Winapi has a simple one:

http://stevedonovan.github.com/winapi/api.html#open_serial

It returns a File object which has a read_async method (backed by a thread)

Not _exhaustively_ tested, so your milleage may vary ;)

steve d.