On 30 Dic, 18:52, MrJean1 <mrje...@gmail.com> wrote: > Brendan, > > The timeout argument of the FTP class (and the connect method) is used > only to establish the connection to FTP sockets. If the timeout > expires, an error called socket.timeout is raised. > > AFAIK, the timeout argument does not limit FTP transfers. To impose a > time limit on FTP transfers, try using the timelimited function from > this recipe: > > <http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576780/> > > /Jean > > On Dec 14, 11:08 am, Brendan <brendandetra...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > I was quite happy to see that ftplib in Python 2.6 now has a timeout > > parameter. With large file downloads my script would often hang, > > presumably from timing out. Now that there is a timeout parameter, how > > would I detect when a timeout occurs?
Sorry, I forgot about this. I had also opened a ticket for this, a long time ago: http://bugs.python.org/issue4814 --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list