Resolving 10060, 'Operation timed out'

[Peter Hansen]

willitfw wrote:
> I'm including the code that I've been using.  I am relatively new to
> python, and not sure if a socket was created:
> 
> *****************
> import socket
> 
> socket.setdefaulttimeout(None)
> sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

The last line above creates a socket... and I suspect
the line ahead of it is redundant.

More importantly, you can probably avoid using
the defaulttimeout thing if you just do settimeout
on the newly created socket...