Python socket connection timeout

Question

I have a socket that I want to timeout when connecting so that I can cancel the whole operation if it can t connect yet it also want to use the makefile for the socket which requires no timeout    Is there an easy way to do this or is this going to be a difficult thing to do   Does python allow a reset of the timeout after connected so that I can use makefile and still have a timeout for the socket connection

User · Answer

If you are using Python2 6 or newer  it s convenient to use socket create connection  sock   socket create connection address  timeout 10  sock settimeout None  fileobj   sock makefile  rb   0

User · Answer

You just need to use the socket settimeout   method before attempting the connect    please note that after connecting you must settimeout None  to set the socket into blocking mode  such is required for the makefile   Here is the code I am using   sock   socket socket socket AF INET  socket SOCK STREAM  sock settimeout 10  sock connect address  sock settimeout None  fileobj   sock makefile  rb   0

User · Answer

For setting the Socket timeout  you need to follow these steps  import socket socks   socket socket socket AF INET  socket SOCK STREAM  socks settimeout 10 0    settimeout is the attr of socks

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