Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2006-07-03, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> DarkBlue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > try for 10 seconds
> >> >if database.connected :
> >> > do your remote thing
> >> > except ra
Grant Edwards wrote:
> I just use signal.alarm():
>
> import signal,sys
>
> def alarmHandler(signum, frame):
> raise 'Timeout'
>
> signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, alarmHandler)
>
> while 1:
> try:
> signal.alarm(5)
> t = sys.stdin.readline()
> signal.alarm(0)
>
On 2006-07-03, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> DarkBlue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > try for 10 seconds
>> >if database.connected :
>> > do your remote thing
>> > except raise after 10 seconds
>> >abort any connection attemp
Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> DarkBlue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > try for 10 seconds
> >if database.connected :
> > do your remote thing
> > except raise after 10 seconds
> >abort any connection attempt
> >do something else
>
> Sure, see function setdefaulttim
>
> Sure, see function setdefaulttimeout in module socket. Just call it as
> you wish before trying the DB connection and catch the resulting
> exception.
>
>
> Alex
That should do it.
Thanks
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DarkBlue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My application makes several connections to
> a remote database server via tcp/ip.
> Usually all is fine,but occasionally the server is
> down or the internet does not work and then there is
> the 30 sec to several minutes timeout wait for the
> tcp to give up
My application makes several connections to
a remote database server via tcp/ip.
Usually all is fine,but occasionally the server is
down or the internet does not work and then there is
the 30 sec to several minutes timeout wait for the
tcp to give up.
Is there anything I can do without using
threa
