On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Dwayne Blind wrote:
or rather
timeout = s.gettimeout()
b=time.clock()
while time.clock()-b<3 :
s.settimeout(3-time.clock()+b)
try :
data=s.recv(1024)
except :
break
s.settimeout(timeout)
Sorry for all these messages
Dwayne
You accidentally top-posted, so I had to delete all the history.
Without knowing anything about "s", there are two problems with this logic:
1) if you loop through the while more than once, you'll be throwing out
old data. So you might need something like data += s.recv(1024).
Conversely, if an exception happens, data is completely undefined.
Without defining a default value, your remaining code is likely to get
an exception.
2) Your time spent might vary between 3 and 6 seconds. If you need a
tighter control than that, play with the timeout a little. For example,
you might want a 1/2 second timeout, and loop until the total is 3
seconds. That way the tolerance will be 3 to 3.5 seconds.
Bonus: I don't know the behavior of the object, so I don't know what
state it's in after you timeout.
DaveA
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