Trouble with defaults and timeout decorator

[Jason Friedman]

I'm writing a database connectivity module to be used by other modules and
leveraging the jaydebeapi module.
>From what I can tell jaydebeapi contains no built-in timeout capability, so
then I turned to https://pypi.org/project/timeout-decorator/.
My goal is to have a default timeout of, say, 10 seconds, which can be
overridden by the caller.


import jaydebeapi
from timeout_decorator import timeout

class Database:
    database_connection = None
    database_name, user_name, password, host, port = stuff
    timeout = None

    def __init__(self, timeout=10):
        self.timeout = timeout

    @timeout(self.timeout)
    def get_connection(self):
        if not self.database_connection:
            self.database_connection = jaydebeapi.connect(some_args)
        return self.database_connection


The trouble occurs on line 12 with:
NameError: name 'self' is not defined