Python Socket Timeout

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I am currently using socket.recv to recieve a message from a server with my client. Is there any way, if no message has been recieved for 5 seconds, to display a custom error and close the connection + client?

Use socket.settimeout() before you perform a blocking operation to control its timeout. So in your case it sounds like you don't want a timeout for connect(), but one for recv(). — Lukas Graf
– Lukas Graf, Commented Sep 10, 2015 at 19:10
You also might want to look into non blocking sockets, I had a great deal of joy with them (: — Hennadii Madan
– Hennadii Madan, Commented Sep 10, 2015 at 19:33

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Use socket.settimeout() before you perform a blocking operation to control its timeout. So in your case it sounds like you don't want a timeout for connect(), but one for recv().

edited Jan 13, 2016 at 10:11

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