Al

Yeah, I suspected that might be the way to do it. I'll have to have a try, is it worth PR'ing it back if I succeed ?

https://github.com/MaJerle/lwjson Something like this ? ...... Hmm bad example, as this doesn't support output, but the general idea is still valid. There are a bunch of libs like this out...

+1 would be very handy, also good if it was invisible to the auto layout code.

I`ve modded my local copy to use select.select, this works fine under os x and linux.