Message4451

> There may be a deeper relationship between the facts that 
> A. java.nio.channels.Selector has problems on Windows
> B. Cpython's select module on Windows does not have a poll object.

It's not that cPython avoided to add Windows poll() support.
poll() system call is *UNIX only*.

> I'm beginning to regret supporting the select.select function. 

Having select() support is good for Windows users since it's often the
only chance they have for doing socket multiplexing.