On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:22:15 -0800, rocco.rossi wrote: > I'm employing xmlrpclib for a project at work, and I must say that I'm > quite impressed with its effectiveness and ease of use. > > However, I was recently doing some tests when I realized that if the > server was down, the client quite simply hanged (no use of "try ... > except" here) with no error or tracebacks or exceptions whatsoever. > > Is there some way in Python of "testing" the presence of the server on > the other end, so as to avoid this situation? > > Thank you.
Hi, Could you test for a socket timeout?: socket.setdefaulttimeout(20.0) # timeout = 20.0 secs regards Trevor http://www.infocentrality.co.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
