How to timeout early when trying to connect

Question

I have an application that is trying to connect to a rabbitmq-server, but I want my application to timeout within a specified number of seconds if it cannot connect to the server.

My problem is that I can't figure out how to do it.

to clarify, it's when my producer tries to connect that I want to timeout earlier, because now It takes up to 20-30 seconds.

Answer 1

If the library you're using makes use of the socket module (many do), a simple import socket; socket.setdefaulttimeout( SECONDS ) will suffice

[edited to include the correction by Daniel Figueroa]