On 12 Apr, 11:19 pm, jcea at jcea.es wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On 04/13/2010 12:47 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >>Jesus Cea <jcea <at> jcea.es> writes: >>> >>>PS: "socket.setdefaulttimeout()" is not enough, because it could >>>shutdown a perfectly functional connection, just because it was idle >>>for >>>too long. >> >>The socket timeout doesn't shutdown anything. It just puts a limit on >>how much >>time recv() and send() can block. Then it's up to you to detect >>whether the >>server is still alive (for example by pinging it through whatever >>means the >>application protocol gives you). > >A regular standard library (let say, poplib) would abort, after getting >the timeout exception. >>>4. Modify client libraries to accept a new optional socket-like >>>object >>>as an optional parameter. This would allow things like transparent >>>compression or encryption, or to replace the socket connection by >>>anything else (read/write to shared memory or database, for example). >> >>This could be useful too. > >I have been thinking about this for years. Do you actually think this >could be formally proposed?. Every once in a while I make a little bit more progress on the PEP I'm working on for this. If you want to talk more about this, you can find me in #python-dev or #twisted on freenode. Jean-Paul
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