Re: [cx-oracle-users] Time out parameter for connect?

[Richard M. <ri...@we...>]

Molina, Gerardo wrote:
> What I was looking for was a timeout associated with an attempted
> connect,  not a timeout for after the connection is established.
> Basically, I'm trying to reduce the the time spent waiting for a TCP
> timeout if host is off the air.  I was looking for something like the
> timeout parameter in the pexpect module.

You use an alarm call, possibly something like 
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/307871
but I guess this might lead to a resource leak.

Rich.
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