UDP sockets

[Peter Hansen]

Wojtek Walczak wrote:
> 
> Dnia 22 Oct 2003 11:15:35 +0200, Zunbeltz Izaola napisa³(a):
> 
> > I'm porting a client writen in C++ to python. What is the way to get a
> > timeout in an select for one socket?
> 
> Quote from the ,,7.3 select -- Waiting for I/O completion'':
> 
>     The optional timeout argument specifies a time-out as a floating point
>     number in seconds.
> 
> So, it'll be something like this:
> 
> n = select.select([fds], [], [], 2)[0][0]

At first glance, this appears unsafe.  What if the fds socket
is not ready after the timeout?  

You will, I think, get an IndexError raised.

-Peter