# Missing docs for gRPC deadline setting
**URL:** https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/missing-docs-for-grpc-deadline-setting/8250
**Category:** Dgraph Clients
**Tags:** priority:p2, area:documentation, pydgraph, status:accepted
**Created:** [February 28, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/missing-docs-for-grpc-deadline-setting/8250 "2020-02-28T00:59:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@diggy](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/diggy)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/missing-docs-for-grpc-deadline-setting/8250/1 "2020-02-28T00:59:45Z")
**Moved from GitHub [pydgraph/118](https://github.com/dgraph-io/pydgraph/issues/118)**
_Posted by_ [ptsilva](https://github.com/ptsilva):
How can we set gRPC deadline on pydgraph?
I can’t found any docs about. It’s mentioned on dgraph docs with shortest path and recurse query.
[https://docs.dgraph.io/query-language/#k-shortest-path-queries](https://docs.dgraph.io/query-language/#k-shortest-path-queries)
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### Author:  [@diggy](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/diggy)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2020, 1:12am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/missing-docs-for-grpc-deadline-setting/8250/2 "2020-02-28T01:12:27Z")
[martinmr](https://github.com/martinmr) _commented_ :
Sorry. I will document this. All the client methods have a keyword argument called timeout: You use it like `client.alter(op, timeout=0.5)`. The timeout should be a number representing the timeout in seconds.
I’ll keep this open to track adding documentation about this feature.
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### Author:  [@diggy](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/diggy)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2020, 4:30am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/missing-docs-for-grpc-deadline-setting/8250/3 "2020-07-11T04:30:26Z")