How to wait only so long for a server to respond?

[Jeff Shannon]

In article 
<nwtq8.11707$ml2.924462 at newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, 
ralph at penguin.com says...
> Pythoners:
> 
> I have some code that requests a response from a server on the Internet, 
> but I only want to wait so long for the server to respond.  How can I tell 
> python to wait x seconds/minutes, then move on to the next section of code 
> if the server has not responded?

Look for timeoutsocket.py -- I don't know the proper address to 
look at, but Google should find it.

(As I understand it, it's a drop-in replacement for the socket 
module that allows an optional timeout value to be specified.)

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Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International