In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Igor V. Rafienko wrote: > I would like to talk to an IMAP-server, imaplib being the tool of > choice, of course. Unfortunately it may happen that the IMAP-server > fails to respond to certain commands, and I would like to be able to > detect that within a given time period (on the scale of 5-10 seconds). > > Initially, I thought about playing with setsockblocking() for the > communication socket in the imaplib.IMAP4 object. However, the IMAP4 > object uses a file object ("created from" the said socket), and the > underlying socket must be blocking according to [1]. > > [1] <http://docs.python.org/lib/socket-objects.html#l2h-3693>
According to the documentation <http://docs.python.org/lib/imap4-objects.html>, you can override the "read" and "readline" methods. How about replacing them with routines that use select.select on the socket() object to implement a timeout? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list