My manual says that socket has a settimeout(value) but I don't seem to find anything on socket.setdefaulttimeout method you refer to.
Larry, the module has a setdefaulttimeout() function, while socket objects themselves have a settimeout().
To the OP: did you already create your socket object before you called setdefaulttimeout()? That setting applies only to *new* sockets created after you call the function...
-Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
