Does socket.setdefaulttimeout affect the timeouts in MySQLdb?

[John Nagle]

    Does setting "socket.setdefaulttimeout" affect the timeout in MySQLdb
for connections to the database?  I'm getting database connection timeouts on
a local (same machine) connnection, and I've been setting 
"socket.setdefaulttimeout" to 15 seconds so web page opens don't hang.
But MySQLdb uses the MySQL C library, which doesn't use Python opens.

				John Nagle