Timeout when connecting to sybase DBS

[eranlevi]

On Jul 2, 1:07 am, s... at pobox.com wrote:
>     Gil> Are you saying, that when you trying to connect to a sybase DBS
>     Gil> server and the DBS or the server is down, you get an error after a
>     Gil> few seconds and not after a few minutes?
>
> Yes, though thankfully our server tends to almost always be up.
>
>     Gil> Which python version are you using?
>
> We're still running 2.4.5 at work and have a slightly hacked very old
> version of the python-sybase package (0.36).
>
> --
> Skip Montanaro - s... at pobox.com -http://www.smontanaro.net/
>     when i wake up with a heart rate below 40, i head right for the espresso
>     machine. -- chaos @ forums.usms.org

That is really strange :-(
I'll ask in the python-sybase group

Thanks