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Include Python's select module on Windows
On Windows, the version of Python bundled with Sublime Text 2 lacks the select module. This makes it very difficult to keep persistent TCP connections open without blocking a thread.
I'm writing a plugin that uses a select() loop. I knew Python's select() could only be used on sockets on Windows. That was fine for my needs. Unfortunately, I didn't know the entire module was removed in Sublime Text 2's Python. I discovered this when a user reported a bug and gave me a traceback:
Reloading plugin C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 2\Packages\Floobits\floobits.py Traceback (most recent call last): File ".\sublime_plugin.py", line 62, in reload_plugin File ".\floobits.py", line 15, in <module> from floo import api File ".\floo\__init__.py", line 2, in <module> from agent_connection import AgentConnection File ".\floo\agent_connection.py", line 6, in <module> import select ImportError: No module named select
Please fix this. It's hard enough to write plugins that work on OS X, Linux, and Windows without having to worry about missing modules.
I also ran into the ssl module missing on Linux, but that bug has already been reported.
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