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- cannot be used to monitor file I/O.</p></li>
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- <h2>Windows<a class="headerlink" href="#windows" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <p><strong>Source code:</strong> <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/3.12/Lib/asyncio/proactor_events.py">Lib/asyncio/proactor_events.py</a>,
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- The <a class="reference internal" href="socket.html#socket.AF_UNIX" title="socket.AF_UNIX"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">socket.AF_UNIX</span></code></a> socket family is specific to Unix.</p></li>
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- methods are not implemented.</p></li>
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- <li><p>The <a class="reference internal" href="asyncio-eventloop.html#asyncio.loop.add_reader" title="asyncio.loop.add_reader"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">loop.add_reader()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="asyncio-eventloop.html#asyncio.loop.add_writer" title="asyncio.loop.add_writer"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">loop.add_writer()</span></code></a>
- methods are not supported.</p></li>
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- <p>The resolution of the monotonic clock on Windows is usually around 15.6
- milliseconds. The best resolution is 0.5 milliseconds. The resolution depends on the
- hardware (availability of <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Precision_Event_Timer">HPET</a>) and on the
- Windows configuration.</p>
- <section id="subprocess-support-on-windows">
- <span id="asyncio-windows-subprocess"></span><h3>Subprocess Support on Windows<a class="headerlink" href="#subprocess-support-on-windows" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
- <p>On Windows, the default event loop <a class="reference internal" href="asyncio-eventloop.html#asyncio.ProactorEventLoop" title="asyncio.ProactorEventLoop"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ProactorEventLoop</span></code></a> supports
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- <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="asyncio-policy.html#asyncio.AbstractEventLoopPolicy.set_child_watcher" title="asyncio.AbstractEventLoopPolicy.set_child_watcher"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">policy.set_child_watcher()</span></code></a> function is also
- not supported, as <a class="reference internal" href="asyncio-eventloop.html#asyncio.ProactorEventLoop" title="asyncio.ProactorEventLoop"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ProactorEventLoop</span></code></a> has a different mechanism
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- <p>Modern macOS versions are fully supported.</p>
- <p class="rubric">macOS <= 10.8</p>
- <p>On macOS 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8, the default event loop
- uses <a class="reference internal" href="selectors.html#selectors.KqueueSelector" title="selectors.KqueueSelector"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">selectors.KqueueSelector</span></code></a>, which does not support
- character devices on these versions. The <a class="reference internal" href="asyncio-eventloop.html#asyncio.SelectorEventLoop" title="asyncio.SelectorEventLoop"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SelectorEventLoop</span></code></a>
- can be manually configured to use <a class="reference internal" href="selectors.html#selectors.SelectSelector" title="selectors.SelectSelector"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SelectSelector</span></code></a>
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- these older versions of macOS. Example:</p>
- <div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">asyncio</span>
- <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">selectors</span>
-
- <span class="n">selector</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">selectors</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">SelectSelector</span><span class="p">()</span>
- <span class="n">loop</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">asyncio</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">SelectorEventLoop</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">selector</span><span class="p">)</span>
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