[Python-Dev] Time-out in URL Open (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Tue Jul 4 09:03:44 CEST 2006


skip at pobox.com wrote:

Facundo> I need a timeout in urlopen, just to be able to make:

>>>> urllib2.urlopen("http://no.host.org", timeout=2) Facundo> This is actually not possible, but I'll make it work. Facundo> I want to know, please, if this is useful in general, for me to Facundo> post a patch in SF. As others have posted, yes, it would be useful for 2.6. However, you should consider how that might be applied to the other Internet service modules (ftplib, telnetlib, urllib, etc).

There was one patch that did this: http://python.org/sf/723312.

Georg



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