> Please don't do that. In Python, we have a long tradition of trying to provide thin wrappers to OS functions: os and select modules are good example.

I don't find this argument terribly convincing... Python also has a long history of papering over small issues when it can be done in a simple and tasteful way. select.select already overrides the Windows default for the maximum number of FDs, and the PEP 475 retry logic is definitely a non-trivial modification to the raw OS select semantics.

But I don't think it matters terribly much either, so long as we all agree that the SelectSelector behavior is definitely a bug :-)