Giovanni Tumiati wrote: > However some of my questions still remain from earlier post: > (1) What is the difference between / how should they be used? > - setdefaulttimeout(timeout) > - settimeout(value)
I think it's basically as you surmised. Calling socket.setdefaulttimeout() (where "socket" is the module itself) sets up the default timeout value for all subsequently created sockets. Calling sock.settimeout() (where "sock" is a specific socket object) changes the timeout value on that socket alone. > (2)Does one have to do a socket.shutdown() before one does a socket.close?? Not normally, AFAIK. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
