[Python-Dev] Time-out in URL Open (original) (raw)
Alex Martelli aleaxit at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 18:42:54 CEST 2006
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What about doing it with a per-thread-timeout in TLS (overriding the global one if a thread does have it set in its TLS)? Not as clean, but perhaps far easier to implement than patching dozens of modules/functions/classes to provide timeout= options everywhere...
Alex
On 7/5/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
OK, you've convinced me. Now where's that SF patch you were promising? :-)
--Guido On 7/5/06, Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote: > 2006/7/4, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>: > > > > This affect all the sockets. > > > > So, assuming your app is single-threaded, set the timeout, call > > urlopen(), and reset the timeout to None. > > No, it's multithreaded, :D > > > > > And I hit the problem when servicing > > > information with a web service (TCPServer), and I need to timeout the > > > connection of the URLOpen only. > > > > That's not so easy even if you were to have a timeout parameter to > > urlopen(). You'd have to implement that peculiarity in all the layers > > (in this case, urllib and httplib; and possibly ftplib, gopherlib etc. > > :-) > > Yes, it's not SO easy, because, as you said, you have to dig into the > layers until you hit the actual socket creation and modify the timeout > for that socket only. > > That's why I think that this should be handled in the standard library > and not left to implement to whoever will need it, :) > > -- > . Facundo > > Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ > PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/ _> ________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org >
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