python non blocking recv with pipe between processes?

Question

Seen this line of code but could not find documentation

self.conn.setblocking(0)

The question is, how do you poll a pool of pipes without blocking? Got a parent process that needs to communicate with some unstable child processes and wish to poll and check periodically if they've something to say. Do not wish to block if they decide they need more time before they have something new to say. Will this magically do this?

Answer 1

Creating a pipe will return two connection objects. A connection object offers the polling functionality, where you can check if there is anything to read. Polling functionality allows you to specify a timeout to wait for.

If you have a group of connection objects that you are waiting on, then you can use multiprocessing.connection.wait(), or the non-multiprocessing version of it.

For details , see https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.html#multiprocessing.connection.Connection which will show you the connection object details. Look at the poll function