How to stop a SocketServer?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Peter> By the way, look into "timeoutsocket.py" which is a plug-in
    Peter> replacement for the standard socket.py and which might do the
    Peter> trick for you.

Note socket objects grow a settimeout() method in 2.3.  If you get Python
from CVS you can have it today:

    settimeout(value)

    Set a timeout on blocking socket operations.  The value argument can be
    a nonnegative float expressing seconds, or None.  If a float is given,
    subsequent socket operations will raise an error exception if the
    timeout period value has elapsed before the operation has completed.
    Setting a timeout of None disables timeouts on socket operations.
    s.settimeout(0.0) is equivalent to s.blocking(0); s.settimeout(None) is
    equivalent to s.setblocking(1).  New in version 2.3.

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