Asynchronous sockets with select - Python

Question

i am studying asynchronous sockets right now and i have this code:

#!/usr/bin/env python 

""" 
An echo server that uses select to handle multiple clients at a time. 
Entering any line of input at the terminal will exit the server. 
""" 

import select 
import socket 
import sys 

host = 'localhost' 
port = 900 
backlog = 5 
size = 1024 
server = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) 
server.bind((host,port)) 
server.listen(backlog) 
input = [server,sys.stdin] 
running = 1 
while running: 
    inputready,outputready,exceptready = select.select(input,[],[]) 

    for s in inputready: 

        if s == server: 
            # handle the server socket 
            client, address = server.accept() 
            input.append(client) 

        elif s == sys.stdin: 
            # handle standard input 
            junk = sys.stdin.readline() 
            running = 0 

        else: 
            # handle all other sockets 
            data = s.recv(size) 
            if data: 
                s.send(data) 
            else: 
                s.close() 
                input.remove(s) 
server.close()

It shoud be a basic kind of echo server using select(), but when I run it, I ger select error 10038 - attemp to manipulation with something which is not socket. Can someone tell me what is wrong? Thank you:)

Answer 1

You are working on Windows, aren't you? On Windows select works only on sockets. But sys.stdin is no socket. Remove it from line 15 and it should work.

On Linux or the like I would expect it working as listed above.