Python 2.6 ftplib has timeout parameter, but how to detect a timeout

[MrJean1]

Brendan,

The timeout argument of the FTP class (and the connect method) is used
only to establish the connection to FTP sockets.  If the timeout
expires, an error called socket.timeout is raised.

AFAIK, the timeout argument does not limit FTP transfers.  To impose a
time limit on FTP transfers, try using the timelimited function from
this recipe:

 <http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576780/>

/Jean



On Dec 14, 11:08 am, Brendan <brendandetra... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was quite happy to see that ftplib in Python 2.6 now has a timeout
> parameter. With large file downloads my script would often hang,
> presumably from timing out. Now that there is a timeout parameter, how
> would I detect when a timeout occurs?