How to catch socket timeout?

[Michael Hudson]

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).

Cheers,
mwh

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