On 12 Apr, 11:19 pm, j...@jcea.es wrote:
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On 04/13/2010 12:47 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Jesus Cea <jcea <at> jcea.es> writes:
PS: "socket.setdefaulttimeout()" is not enough, because it could
shutdown a perfectly functional connection, just because it was idle
for
too long.
The socket timeout doesn't shutdown anything. It just puts a limit on
how much
time recv() and send() can block. Then it's up to you to detect
whether the
server is still alive (for example by pinging it through whatever
means the
application protocol gives you).
A regular standard library (let say, poplib) would abort, after getting
the timeout exception.
4. Modify client libraries to accept a new optional socket-like
object
as an optional parameter. This would allow things like transparent
compression or encryption, or to replace the socket connection by
anything else (read/write to shared memory or database, for example).
This could be useful too.
I have been thinking about this for years. Do you actually think this
could be formally proposed?.
Every once in a while I make a little bit more progress on the PEP I'm
working on for this. If you want to talk more about this, you can find
me in #python-dev or #twisted on freenode.
Jean-Paul
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