socket read timeout

[Steve Holden]

Jarek Zgoda wrote:
> hg napisał(a):
> 
>> I am looking for the most efficient / cleanest way to implement a socket
>> read with timeout (Windows mainly but would be great if the same code
>> worked under *nix)
> 
> Did you see http://www.timo-tasi.org/python/timeoutsocket.py ?
> 
Note that since 2.4, I believe, sockets in the standard library allow 
you to specify a timeout parameter.

regards
  Steve
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