In the end, I dropped the socketserver
module and went directly with socket
module, in which timeout worked.
TIMEOUT = 3
HOST = '192.0.0.202'
PORT = 2000
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
s.bind((HOST, PORT))
s.listen(1)
while 1:
conn, addr = s.accept()
conn.settimeout(TIMEOUT)
while 1:
try:
data = conn.recv(1024)
#Do things
except socket.timeout:
#Timeout occurred, do things
if not data or P=='end':
print 'Connection lost. Listening for a new controller.'
break
conn.close()