Yup. I just went through a similar exercise with urllib2. It wasn't too hard to plumb through a different HTTPHandler that set the timeout, but it would be much nicer as a default option. It seems like a 30 minute project; might fit in an "odds and ends" sprint.
Jeremy On 12/22/05, Jim Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/jeremy%40alum.mit.edu > _______________________________________________ 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
