"Swaroop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PLS HELP..I am working on socket programming as part of my final year > project. I want to know how to set a timeout on read api that reads > from a socket. Is it possible using SIGALRM signal?Will setting > O_NONBLOCK flag of the socket help? Is there any other way to do it?
You could do it with sigalrm but more common is to set a timeout on the socket (see the settimeout method in the doc). You could also use select with a timeout, and not read until the select tells you that data is available. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
