pyev is a libev interface written in Python.
libev is an event loop: you register interest in certain events (such as a file descriptor being readable or a timeout occurring), and it will manage these event sources and provide your program with events.
To do this, it must take more or less complete control over your process (or thread) by executing the event loop handler, and will then communicate events via a callback mechanism.
You register interest in certain events by registering so-called event watchers, which you initialize with the details of the event, and then hand it over to libev by starting the watcher.
libev supports select, poll, the Linux-specific epoll, the BSD-specific kqueue and the Solaris-specific event port mechanisms for file descriptor events (Io), the Linux inotify interface (for Stat), Linux eventfd/signalfd (for faster and cleaner inter-thread wakeup (Async)/signal handling (Signal)) relative timers (Timer), absolute timers with customised rescheduling (Periodic), synchronous signals (Signal), process status change events (Child), and event watchers dealing with the event loop mechanism itself (Idle, Embed, Prepare and Check watchers) as well as file watchers (Stat) and even limited support for fork events (Fork).
libev is written and maintained by Marc Lehmann.
Product's homepage
Requirements:
· Python
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
misc:
· better gc support (should fix circular reference cases).
watchers (common):
· Issue #6: on Python 2 the priority attribute was supposed to be an int but accepted only longs.
· Unloop the loop and raise if EV_ERROR is received in callback.
· Issue #7: fix memory leak in callback.
Periodic:
· fix memory leak in reschedule callback.
Find us on Google+
