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* [libgpiod][PATCH] bindings: python: change the interpretation of None in event wait
@ 2023-05-23 13:34 Bartosz Golaszewski
  2023-05-23 13:35 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
  2023-05-24  7:00 ` Alexander Stein
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Bartosz Golaszewski @ 2023-05-23 13:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kent Gibson, Linus Walleij, Andy Shevchenko, Viresh Kumar,
	Nicolas Frattaroli
  Cc: linux-gpio, Bartosz Golaszewski

From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>

The docs don't mention it but currently passing None as the timeout to
one of the event wait methods works like passing 0 to select() - the wait
method returns immediately. Change it to a more standard behavior - None
makes the method block indefinitely until an even becomes available for
reading.

This is a slight change in the behavior but let's hope nobody complains
as libgpiod v2 is still pretty recent and its adoption is (hopegully)
not wide-spread yet.

Suggested-by: Nicolas Frattaroli <frattaroli.nicolas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
---
 bindings/python/gpiod/chip.py         | 3 ++-
 bindings/python/gpiod/internal.py     | 3 ---
 bindings/python/gpiod/line_request.py | 3 ++-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bindings/python/gpiod/chip.py b/bindings/python/gpiod/chip.py
index 97ff340..52d0757 100644
--- a/bindings/python/gpiod/chip.py
+++ b/bindings/python/gpiod/chip.py
@@ -195,7 +195,8 @@ class Chip:
         Args:
           timeout:
             Wait time limit represented as either a datetime.timedelta object
-            or the number of seconds stored in a float.
+            or the number of seconds stored in a float. If set to 0, the
+            method returns immediately, if set to None it blocks indefinitely.
 
         Returns:
           True if an info event is ready to be read from the chip, False if the
diff --git a/bindings/python/gpiod/internal.py b/bindings/python/gpiod/internal.py
index 37e8b62..7b4598c 100644
--- a/bindings/python/gpiod/internal.py
+++ b/bindings/python/gpiod/internal.py
@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@ from typing import Optional, Union
 
 
 def poll_fd(fd: int, timeout: Optional[Union[timedelta, float]] = None) -> bool:
-    if timeout is None:
-        timeout = 0.0
-
     if isinstance(timeout, timedelta):
         sec = timeout.total_seconds()
     else:
diff --git a/bindings/python/gpiod/line_request.py b/bindings/python/gpiod/line_request.py
index a0f97b7..090467c 100644
--- a/bindings/python/gpiod/line_request.py
+++ b/bindings/python/gpiod/line_request.py
@@ -178,7 +178,8 @@ class LineRequest:
         Args:
           timeout:
             Wait time limit expressed as either a datetime.timedelta object
-            or the number of seconds stored in a float.
+            or the number of seconds stored in a float. If set to 0, the
+            method returns immediately, if set to None it blocks indefinitely.
 
         Returns:
           True if events are ready to be read. False on timeout.
-- 
2.39.2


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