Sometimes, you need to manipulate the default values of certain properties of a socket library, for example, the socket timeout.
You can make an instance of a socket object and call a gettimeout() method to get the default timeout value and the settimeout() method to set a specific timeout value. This is very useful in developing custom server applications.
We first create a socket object inside a test_socket_timeout() function. Then, we can use the getter/setter instance methods to manipulate timeout values.
Listing 1.6 shows socket_timeout as follows:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# This program is optimized for Python 2.7.12 and Python 3.5.2.
# It may run on any other version with/without modifications.
import socket
def test_socket_timeout():
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
print ("Default socket timeout: %s" %s.gettimeout())
s.settimeout(100)
print ("Current socket timeout: %s" %s...