Is there a way to listen to multiple python sockets at once

Question

can i listen to multiple sockets at once

The code i am using to monitor the sockets at the moment is:

while True:
    for sock in socks:
        data, addr = sock.recvfrom(1024) # buffer size is 1024 bytes
        print "received message:", data

but that waits at the line:

data, addr = sock.recvfrom(1024) # buffer size is 1024 bytes

until it recieves a message.

Is there a way to make it listen to multiple sockets at once

EDIT: not sure if it is completely relevant but i am using UDP

Answer 1

A slight update to entropy's answer for Python 3: The selectors module allows high-level and efficient I/O multiplexing, built upon the select module primitives. Users are encouraged to use this module instead, unless they want precise control over the OS-level primitives used. As per the documentation