uselect – wait for events on a set of streams

Warning

Though this MicroPython-based library is available for use in CircuitPython, its functionality may change in the future, perhaps significantly. As CircuitPython continues to develop, it may be changed to comply more closely with the corresponding standard Python library. You may need to change your code later if you rely on any non-standard functionality it currently provides.

This module implements a subset of the corresponding CPython module, as described below. For more information, refer to the original CPython documentation: select.

This module provides functions to efficiently wait for events on multiple streams (select streams which are ready for operations).

Functions

uselect.poll()

Create an instance of the Poll class.

uselect.select(rlist, wlist, xlist[, timeout])

Wait for activity on a set of objects.

This function is provided by some MicroPython ports for compatibility and is not efficient. Usage of Poll is recommended instead.

class Poll

Methods

poll.register(obj[, eventmask])

Register obj for polling. eventmask is logical OR of:

  • select.POLLIN - data available for reading
  • select.POLLOUT - more data can be written
  • select.POLLERR - error occurred
  • select.POLLHUP - end of stream/connection termination detected

eventmask defaults to select.POLLIN | select.POLLOUT.

poll.unregister(obj)

Unregister obj from polling.

poll.modify(obj, eventmask)

Modify the eventmask for obj.

poll.poll([timeout])

Wait for at least one of the registered objects to become ready. Returns list of (obj, event, …) tuples, event element specifies which events happened with a stream and is a combination of select.POLL* constants described above. There may be other elements in tuple, depending on a platform and version, so don’t assume that its size is 2. In case of timeout, an empty list is returned.

Timeout is in milliseconds.

Difference to CPython

Tuples returned may contain more than 2 elements as described above.

poll.ipoll(timeout=-1, flags=0)

Like poll.poll(), but instead returns an iterator which yields callee-owned tuples. This function provides efficient, allocation-free way to poll on streams.

If flags is 1, one-shot behavior for events is employed: streams for which events happened, event mask will be automatically reset (equivalent to poll.modify(obj, 0)), so new events for such a stream won’t be processed until new mask is set with poll.modify(). This behavior is useful for asynchronous I/O schedulers.

Difference to CPython

This function is a MicroPython extension.