non blocking socket.accept()

[Martin Sjögren]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:45:05PM +0000, Zsolt Marx wrote:
> I far as I know socket.accept() waits for a client
> to ask for a connection with the server.
> 
> This command seems to be blocking, though I would
> like to limit the wait time onto a predefined interval
> and to throw an error, if there is no connection.
> 
> How can I achieve this?

You will probably be able to do this with the new timout sockets, but in
the meantime, check out the select module:

import select
if select.select([serversock], [], [], timeout):
    client,addr = serversock.accept()


Regards,
Martin

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