[Zope] controlling UDP socket defaulttimeout in External Method

[Bill Seitz]

I am running ZoPe v2.6.2 which uses PyThon v2.1.3.

I have some Python code to send data to a business partner over a UDP 
socket.

I'm trying to call that code from an External Method.

The socket.setdefaulttimeout() function wasn't defined until Python 2.3.

If I want to control the timeout period for this function, how would I 
do it?