timeoutsocket enables a timeout mechanism on all TCP connections. It does this by inserting a shim into the socket module. After this module has been imported, all socket creation goes through this shim. As a result, every TCP connection will support a timeout. The beauty of this method is that it immediately and transparently enables the entire python library to support timeouts on TCP sockets. WWW: http://www.timo-tasi.org/python/timeoutsocket.py Author: Timothy O'Malley