How to catch socket timeout?

[Mickel Grönroos]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Mickel Grönroos wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Michael Hudson wrote:
>
> > Paul <paul at oz.net> writes:
> >
> > > What's the best way to do this under Python 2.1?
> > > I believe socket.timeout was a 2.3 feature.
> > > Wrap it in threads?
> >
> > There's Tim O'Malley's timeoutsocket.py (google for it), which was the
> > inspiration for the feature in 2.3 (though I don't think any code from
> > there actually survived).
>
> I can't get the timeoutsocket module to work on my Redhat Linux! (The
> timeout works fine on Windows 2000.) I'm running Python 2.2.2.
>
> Here's the test code:
>
> import timeoutsocket
> timeoutsocket.setDefaultSocketTimeout(1)
> s = timeoutsocket.socket(timeoutsocket.AF_INET, timeoutsocket.SOCK_STREAM)
> s.connect(("www.google.com", 80))
> s.close()

I might add, that I conducted the test by running the above code
with and without my Ethernet cable plugged to the computer. When it was
plugged connect() worked just fine, when unplugged, the connect() call
timed out on Windows as expected but not at all on Linux.

/Mickel G.

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