ftplib -- how to timeout a connection

[James Sleeman]

Hi all,
	I have written a small multi threaded application using a
pygtk/python-gnome/glade interface which polls a list of FTP sites tring
to either get a recursive directory listing, or download a file.  Each
site is only hit once in every x seconds.  I wrote it to leech files from
very busy sites with small maximum users and hmmering protection.

Anyway...for the averge FTP site this works great, i rack up 8 threads
polling sites and the main thread handling the GUI (for adding/editing
sites, queueing files, and displaying status).  However it
seems I have a few problem sites in there... when the thread tries to
connect to the site it sits for maybe 2 minutes before it gives up trying
to connect.  I want some way of specifying a connect timeout such that if
the connection phase (including login) has not completed in n seconds
that it should fail (throw an exception) then and there.

Can anybody think of a way I can do this ?


Really I'd like something like this....
	
try :
	self.ftpConnection = FTP()
	self.ftpConnection.connect(self.Host, self.Port)
	self.ftpConnection.login(self.User, self.Pass)
except connectTimeout :
	blah blah blah....


Ideas anyone ?

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James Sleeman