hola. In article <NbVL6.10438$sk3.2803654 at newsb.telia.net>, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > And if you look in the Python docs, you'll notice that you can use > "connect_ex" instead of "connect" if you don't want the exception. Argh! Don't tell him that -- timeoutsocket.py doesn't properly wrap that function. Another thing on the ToDo list.