configure 'time out' time for urllib

[wes weston]

Andreas,
    Follow the link in Pieter's reply. It explains that the method
changes the timeout for ALL connections. You won't need to recode
in sockets. Thanks Pieter.
wes

Andreas Dahl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use urllib to retrieve data via HTTP. Unfortunately my program crashes
> after a while (after some loops) because the connection timed out.
> 
> raise socket.error, msg
> IOError: [Errno socket error] (60, 'Connection timed out')
> 
> I am not so familiar with python, but is there a possibility to
> configure the 'waiting time'? Or how can I handle such an event? To skip
> that query and go to the next one would also work.
> 
> Many thanks in advance, Andreas
> 
> code:
>     params = urllib.urlencode({'rs': rs})
>     try:
>         file =
> urllib.urlopen("http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/snp_ref.cgi?%s" %
> params)
>     except IOError, message: # file open failed
>         print >> sys.stderr, "File could not be opend:", message
>         sys.exit(1)
>     data = file.readlines() # array with html-doc-content
>     file.close()
>