> how do i timeout if its taking too long for a socket.connect to
> establish a connect?
Hi gk,
You may need to use a third-party module called 'timeoutsocket'
http://www.timo-tasi.org/python/timeoutsocket.py
[Side note: In the upcoming version of Python (Python 2.3), sockets will
have a 'settimeout()' method:
http://python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/socket-objects.html
]
Good luck to you!