UDP sockets

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:15:35AM +0200, Zunbeltz Izaola wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm porting a client writen in C++ to python. What is the way to get a
> timeout in an select for one socket? 
> the c++ code is:
> 
> 
>     FD_ZERO(&fds);
>     FD_SET(fd_sock, &fds);
>     tv.tv_sec=2;
>     tv.tv_usec=0;
>     n = select(fd_sock+1,&fds,NULL,NULL,&tv);
>     sendto(...)

The python code is (assuming your socket.socket object is in a variable
called 'sock'):

    import select
    r, w, e = select.select([sock], [], [], 2)
    if r:
        sock.sendto(...)

-Andrew.