socket read timeout

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Steve Holden wrote:

> Jarek Zgoda wrote:
>> hg napisa?(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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Hi and thanks to all.

Do you mean use select ?

Thanks,

hg