Take a look at function timelimited in this recipe <http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576780/>
/Jean On Nov 29, 8:08 am, r0g <aioe....@technicalbloke.com> wrote: > r0g wrote: > > r0g wrote: > >> Gabriel Genellina wrote: > >>> En Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:35:36 -0300, r0g <aioe....@technicalbloke.com> > >>> escribió: > > >>>> gethostbyname ignores setdefaulttimeout. > > >>>> How big a job is it to use non-blocking sockets to write a DNS lookup > >>>> function with a customisable timeout? A few lines? A few hundred? I'd > > <snip> > > > As usual, everything is working beautifully until I try to make it work > > with windows! > > > Turns out signals.SIGALRM is Unix only and I want to run on both > > platforms so I have done as the docs suggested and tried to convert the > > code to use threading.Timer to trigger an exception if the DNS lookup is > > taking too long. > > Actually none of that was necessary in the end. Digging into the pydns > source to debug the 30 second pause I happened across the timeout parameter! > > >>> result = ping.do_one( "google.com", 5 ) > > "" > > Phew, that simplifies thing a lot! :) > > Roger. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list