[Python-Dev] Time-out in URL Open

[Guido van Rossum]

To fake things like this, socket.setdefaulttimeout() was added, though
I don't know if it actually works. Have you tried that?

--Guido

On 7/3/06, Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need a timeout in urlopen, just to be able to make:
>
> >>> urllib2.urlopen("http://no.host.org", timeout=2)
>
> This is actually not possible, but I'll make it work.
>
> I want to know, please, if this is useful in general, for me to post a
> patch in SF.
>
> Regards,
>
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