Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > "Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> hg> My issue with that is the effect on write: I only want a timeout on >>>> hg> read ... but anyway ... >>>> >>>> So set a long timeout when you want to write and short timeout when you > want >>>> to read. >>>> >>> Are sockets full duplex? >>> >> Yes. But you have to use non-blocking calls in your application to use >> them as full-duplex in your code. > > This seems to bear out the scenario I have described elsewhere in this > thread - I think its caused by the file handlers, but I don't _know_ it. > >>> I know Ethernet isn't. >>> >> Don't know much, then, do you? ;-) > > No not really - I easily get confused by such things as collisions... > > : - )
Right, but collisions are *so* twentieth-century, aren't they. With a properly-implemented switched infrastructure Ethernet interfaces can transmit and receive at the same time. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden Recent Ramblings http://holdenweb.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
