Today I fixed a really C**Py bug which have been bugged me all days and years, nights and midnights!

I use a scheduler to to get data from MongoDB and one the servers is outside of Iran and another in Iran. When I want to get data sometimes querying the db takes forever and it freezes the data gathering procedure. I had to restart (like windows) to reset the connection. I know it was stupid! :|

I found the below parameter that you can set on your pymongo.MongoClient:

socketTimeoutMS=10000

socketTimeoutMS: (integer or None) Controls how long (in milliseconds) the driver will wait for a response after sending an ordinary (non-monitoring) database operation before concluding that a network error has occurred. Defaults to `None` (no timeout).
When you don't set it it means no timeout! So I set it to 20000 Ms (20 Sec) in order to solve this nasty problem.

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