[issue8460] Set a timeout in test_urllib2net
STINNER Victor
report at bugs.python.org
Tue Apr 20 01:23:06 CEST 2010
STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> The last line references, buf. It wont be available if a
> socket.timeout had happened. So, it can simply be moved to
> the line below buf = f.read(). Attaching the patch with
> these changes.
Good catch :-)
> Question: Were you able to simulate a timeout at kernel.org
> site to test this? If yes, how?
I used a firewall rule. On Linux, you can try: iptables -I OUTPUT DROP to drop all output packets (and then iptables -F to remove all rules). It's not reliable, but the test does sometimes fail :-)
----------
_______________________________________
Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org>
<http://bugs.python.org/issue8460>
_______________________________________
More information about the Python-bugs-list
mailing list