Socket Help

[Luca Fini]

Python 2.3 has support for timeout on sockets.

                           l.f.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Lindstrom Greg - glinds wrote:

> Hello-
>
> I have a python routine (Python 2.2.3 on Windows 2000 "Professional") using
> a socket connection.  Problem is, the backend service I'm connecting to will
> hang every so often and the socket will simply wait for a response which
> will never come.  I'm thinking of putting in a routine to check the socket's
> status, which now brings in threading.  Before I go to the trouble I thought
> I'd ask if there is a simple way to verify my socket is still communicating.
> It's running about 200 transactions per second...if I put in the threaded
> timer I'd have it take a look every few seconds to see if the
> "TotalRecordsProcessed" counter has been incremented.
>
> Your constructive thoughts are requested.

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