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

[Maik Hertha]

Ralph wrote:

>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?
>
>Thanks as always.
>
>Raplh
>
you should have a look on the signal module.
example is here: http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/node214.html


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