timeout and sockets example request??

Fri Jul 23 15:26:38 EDT 2004

Dave Brueck <dave at pythonapocrypha.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.724.1090525178.5135.python-list at python.org>...
> Ishwar Rattan wrote:
> What version of Python are you using? Could you post some code showing 
> what didn't work? Here's why I ask:
> 
> Python 2.3.4 (#53, May 25 2004, 21:17:02)...
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "l...
>  >>> from socket import *
>  >>> s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
>  >>> s.settimeout(5)
>  >>>
> 
> (no errors)
> 
> setdefaulttimeout is handy when you don't have access to the actual 
> socket object, e.g.:
> 
>  >>> import socket
>  >>> socket.getdefaulttimeout()
>  10.0
>  >>> socket.setdefaulttimeout(3)
>  >>> import urllib
>  >>> urllib.urlopen('http://www.google.com').read()
> '<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content=...
> 
> -Dave

Thanks for the example. It comes out that I ws running python-2.2.3 :-(

-ishwar