Yesterday, I needed to make a web request in a program (actually a test) that could block indefinately, so I needed to set a socket timeout. Unfortunately, AFAICT none of urllib, urllib2, httplib provide options to set the timeout on the sockets they use. I ended up having to roll my own code to make the request.
It would be nice if high-level network modules, like the ones mentioned above, had options to provide a timeout. (For example, urlopen could grow an optional timout argument.) Thoughts? If we think this is a good idea, then someone who has time could start chipping away at it. I'm happy to work on this *if* I can find time. This would make a nice easy sprint project at PyCon too. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
