[Twisted-Python] Timing Out Deferreds

[James Y Knight]

On Feb 25, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Ken Kinder wrote:
> I've been trying to figure out an intelligent way of timing out 
> deferreds.

No, a deferred is just a chain of callbacks -- it doesn't really make 
sense to time out a chain of callbacks. You need to time out the 
*source* operation that is planning on eventually calling the deferred. 
The process of killing the source operation ought to additionally cause 
the deferred's errback to be called.

James