Stéphane Ninin wrote: > Hello, > > I have a few questions regarding sockets with timeouts. > > Assuming you set a timeout t on a socket s and then call: > > > 1) s.sendall > Is the socket.timeout exception thrown when > not the data was sent in the given time t > or if nothing was sent ? > > 2) Similar question for s.send: > Is the socket.timeout exception thrown when > nothing was sent or ... ? > > > What I am actually trying to do is this: > > I have a thread which uses a socket to communicate with a socket server, > the socket sends data to the server, but it shouldnot block on the send, > so I want to do something like this: > > def sendall(self,data): > while data: > n = self.send(data) > data = data[n:] > try: > self.request.send(data) > except socket.timeout, e: > if self.isTerminated(): > return > > but I am not sure this would work the way I want. > It wouldn't even compile, as your indentation is shot.
Plus, if the first send attempt (the one before the try) sends all the data you then try to send an empty string, which seems a little weird: I don't see the point of the try/except. > (self.isTerminated just checks is some event > has been set by another thread) > > > Thanks for comments/suggestions/answers, > > Sending sockets will usually only block when the sliding window is full (the sender has sent as much data as the remote receiver has indicated it can safely receive without loss) and no acknowledgment has been received from the remote receiver. Rather than a timeout it would seem sensible, if you don't want the sending socket to block, to use a non-blocking socket. That way you get a socket.error if a send would otherwise block. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
