Adding timeouts to Internet sockets

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, John Copella wrote:
> How have developers added timeout behavior to Internet sockets in Python?  I
> am developing an application that uses ftplib, and I need to timeout if the
> server is unavailable, etc.  I note that Tim O'Malley has a package out
> (http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py?i=87800233) that very cleverly and
> transparently does this (or seems to).  Has anyone used it?  My application
> will be mission-critical, and I would prefer to use whatever is considered
> the current best practice.

   I use from time to time. It does the job, though I had some minor
problems - it seems sometimes it timeouts a connection that is in progress.
Well, I am almost satisfied with it.

Oleg.
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