Thanks for your answer. I don't want to reset my socket. I want to apply the timeout to the rcv method only.
What about select ? http://docs.python.org/library/select.html#select.select How to implement it ? Thanks a lot, Dwayne 2011/2/3 Stephen Hansen <me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io> > On 2/3/11 9:56 AM, Dwayne Blind wrote: > > However I would like to set timeout on the socket rcv method, so that > > the while loop stops exactly after 3 seconds. Is this possible ? > > I rarely do low-level socket stuff -- but I think s.settimeout() is what > you're looking for. It applies to the whole socket, and not just one > method -- so you may want to reset it after you're done recv'n. > > -- > > Stephen Hansen > ... Also: Ixokai > ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io > ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/ > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > >
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