feedparser hanging after I/O error

[xDog Walker]

On Wednesday 2011 June 01 10:34, John Nagle wrote:
> I have a program which uses "feedparser".  It occasionally hangs when
> the network connection has been lost, and remains hung after the network
> connection is restored.

My solution is to download the feed file using wget, then hand that file to 
feedparser. feedparser will also hang forever on a url if the server doesn't 
serve. 

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