Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2006-07-03, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> DarkBlue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > try for 10 seconds
> >> >if database.connected :
> >> > do your remote thing
> >> > except ra
Grant Edwards wrote:
> I just use signal.alarm():
>
> import signal,sys
>
> def alarmHandler(signum, frame):
> raise 'Timeout'
>
> signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, alarmHandler)
>
> while 1:
> try:
> signal.alarm(5)
> t = sys.stdin.readline()
> signal.alarm(0)
>
On 2006-07-03, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> DarkBlue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > try for 10 seconds
>> >if database.connected :
>> > do your remote thing
>> > except raise after 10 seconds
>> >abort any connection attemp
Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> DarkBlue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > try for 10 seconds
> >if database.connected :
> > do your remote thing
> > except raise after 10 seconds
> >abort any connection attempt
> >do something else
>
> Sure, see function setdefaulttim
>
> Sure, see function setdefaulttimeout in module socket. Just call it as
> you wish before trying the DB connection and catch the resulting
> exception.
>
>
> Alex
That should do it.
Thanks
Db
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DarkBlue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My application makes several connections to
> a remote database server via tcp/ip.
> Usually all is fine,but occasionally the server is
> down or the internet does not work and then there is
> the 30 sec to several minutes timeout wait for the
> tcp to give up
