Source: python-iowait Maintainer: Debian Python Team Section: python Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-python Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-sequence-python3, python3-setuptools Build-Depends-Indep: python3-all Standards-Version: 4.7.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-iowait Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-iowait.git Homepage: https://launchpad.net/python-iowait Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: python3-iowait Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends} Breaks: ${python3:Breaks} Description: Platform-independent module for I/O completion events Different operating systems provide different ways to wait for I/O completion events: there's select(), poll(), epoll() and kqueue(). For cross-platform applications it can be a pain to support all this system functions, especially because each one provides a different interface. . IOWait solves this problem by providing a unified interface and using always the best and faster function available in the platform. Its only limitation is that, on Windows, it only works for sockets. . This package provides the module for Python 3.