2008/3/28, Forest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The socket.makefile() docs say, "the socket must be in blocking mode." I > don't see any explanation of why blocking mode is required, and I'm not sure > whether that means timeout mode is forbidden as well. Can someone clarify > this? >
Have you set your socket to be nonblocking ? Otherwise it is blocking, it is the "normal" one. I don't know why you think timeout is forbidden too, it is not. > I wanted to use file-like objects with socket timeouts, so I ended up writing > my own replacement for socket._fileobject. I'd appreciate it if someone > could > either explain to my why my new class was unnecessary, or else encourage me > to > contribute it as a patch to the socket module. > It looks like to be unnecessary. > Cheers, > > Forest > > > > > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
