Does socket.setdefaulttimeout affect the timeouts in MySQLdb?

[Steve Holden]

John Nagle wrote:
>     Does setting "socket.setdefaulttimeout" affect the timeout in MySQLdb
> for connections to the database?  I'm getting database connection timeouts on
> a local (same machine) connnection, and I've been setting 
> "socket.setdefaulttimeout" to 15 seconds so web page opens don't hang.
> But MySQLdb uses the MySQL C library, which doesn't use Python opens.
> 
So that would be a "no", then.

regards
  Steve
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