[Python-Dev] Time-out in URL Open

[Alex Martelli]

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, :)
> >
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