Name

set_timeout

Synopsis

                        t.set_timeout(s)

Sets the timeout value of t to s seconds. s is a float or None.

The default timeout value of each new instance t of TimeoutSocket is None, meaning that there is no timeout—t behaves like an ordinary socket instance. To change this, module timeoutsocket supplies two functions.

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