How to set connection timeout in SQLAlchemy

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how to set the connection timeout in create_engine(), so far I\'ve tried:

create_engine(url, timeout=10)

Answer 1

In response to comment below by @nivhanin which asks "What is the default value for the connect_timeout variable (in general and specific to MySQL database?"? (I don't have enough reputation to leave comments).

Default for connect_timeout for Mysql5.7 is 10 seconds

Also maybe relevant:

• wait_timeout -- default value of 28800 seconds (8 hours)
• interactive_timeout -- default value of 28800 seconds (8 hours)