On what operating systems are the different functions of the select module in Python, like select(), poll(), epoll() available?

Question

I was trying to use the poll() function on Windows when I realized that only the select() function is supported on windows, and I believe poll() is supported on Linux. Could anyone help me out as to what functions of the select module are supported on what operating systems?

Thanks

Answer 1

From the python select documentation:

This module provides access to the select() and poll() functions available in most operating systems, epoll() available on Linux 2.5+ and kqueue() available on most BSD. Note that on Windows, it only works for sockets; on other operating systems, it also works for other file types (in particular, on Unix, it works on pipes). It cannot be used on regular files to determine whether a file has grown since it was last read.