<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>Simple question: Is it possible to stop a running function after certain<br>>predefined time?
<br>><br>>I would like to convert this routine to Python using pycurl module, or maybe<br>>even standard urllib.urlretrieve. </blockquote><div><br>
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</div></div>If you use urllib.urlretrieve, you can pass in a callback
function that gets called after every few blocks are downloaded. In
that function, you could check how much time has passed since the
download started, and quit the download if necessary. You should be
able to do this without threads. I'm not sure how you stop a download
once it's started though!<br>
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Olly<br>
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