IO timeout in threaded application

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1060629439.21285.python-list at python.org>,
Gordon Messmer  <gmessmer at real.com> wrote:
>
>What's the easiest way to accomplish that?  Should I just subclass 
>smtplib's SMTP class and override the "connect" function with one that 
>creates a socket with a timeout?

If you don't mind having the same timeout for every socket, use either
timeoutsocket.py (or the new functionality in Python 2.3) to set a
global timeout.
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