Hi there. We're talking about an asyncore-based server. Just for the heck of it I'd like to set a timeout which will disconnects the clients if they're inactive (i.e., no command or data transfer in progress) for a long period of time. I was thinking about putting the timeout value into an attribute:
def settimeout(self, secs): self.timeout = time.time() + secs And then have the readable method call time.time() at every loop to check if time has passed or not: def readable(self): if time.time() >= self.timeout: self.send("Timeout") self.close() return 1 My only concern is if it's a good idea calling time.time() so often. Since A LOT of clients could be connected simultaneously, couldn't it be a too much resource-intensive operation? I'd also be curious to know how Twisted implemented this kind of stuff. By calling time.time() at every loop? Thanks in advance. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list