Resolving 10060, 'Operation timed out'

[willitfw]

Does anyone know how to prevent this error from occurring: IOError:
[Errno socket error] (10060, 'Operation timed out').

I am using the following code without any luck. Obviously I am missing
something.

import socket
socket.setdefau lttimeout(20)

Thank you in advance.

Tom Williams

[Larry Bates]

My manual says that socket has a settimeout(valu e) but I don't
seem to find anything on socket.setdefau lttimeout method you
refer to.

<snip>
settimeout( value)

Set a timeout on blocking socket operations. The value argument can be a
nonnegative float expressing seconds, or None. If a float is given, subsequent
socket operations will raise an timeout exception if the timeout period value
has elapsed before the operation has completed. Setting a timeout of None
disables timeouts on socket operations. s.settimeout(0. 0) is equivalent to
s.setblocking(0 ); s.settimeout(No ne) is equivalent to s.setblocking(1 ). New in
version 2.3.

-Larry Bates

willitfw wrote:

Does anyone know how to prevent this error from occurring: IOError:
[Errno socket error] (10060, 'Operation timed out').

I am using the following code without any luck. Obviously I am missing
something.

import socket
socket.setdefau lttimeout(20)

Thank you in advance.

Tom Williams

[Peter Hansen]

Larry Bates wrote:

My manual says that socket has a settimeout(valu e) but I don't
seem to find anything on socket.setdefau lttimeout method you
refer to.

Larry, the module has a setdefaulttimeo ut() function,
while socket objects themselves have a settimeout().

To the OP: did you already create your socket object
before you called setdefaulttimeo ut()? That setting
applies only to *new* sockets created after you call
the function...

-Peter

[Peter Hansen]

willitfw wrote:

I'm including the code that I've been using. I am relatively new to
python, and not sure if a socket was created:

*************** **
import socket

socket.setdefau lttimeout(None)
sock = socket.socket(s ocket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STR EAM)

The last line above creates a socket... and I suspect
the line ahead of it is redundant.

More importantly, you can probably avoid using
the defaulttimeout thing if you just do settimeout
on the newly created socket...