Gil> Are you saying, that when you trying to connect to a sybase DBS Gil> server and the DBS or the server is down, you get an error after a Gil> few seconds and not after a few minutes?
Yes, though thankfully our server tends to almost always be up. Gil> Which python version are you using? We're still running 2.4.5 at work and have a slightly hacked very old version of the python-sybase package (0.36). -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ when i wake up with a heart rate below 40, i head right for the espresso machine. -- chaos @ forums.usms.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list