timer for a function

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1986.1265390557.28905.python-list at python.org>,
mk  <mrkafk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>self.conobj = paramiko.SSHClient()
>
>self.conobj.connect(self.ip, username=self.username, 
>key_filename=self.sshprivkey, port=self.port, timeout=opts.timeout)
>
>2. very slow SSH host that is hanging for 30+ seconds on key exchange.
>
>The timeout in the options regards only a socket timeout, not further 
>stages of connection negotiation, so it doesn't work there.

Does paramiko offer any kind of callback?  In a similar situation with
pycurl, I built my own timer into a callback.
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