Jim Fulton 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. > That's a very good idea. At present the only option one has is to set a global socket.defaulttimout() or somehow monkey-patch the modules you want to use, and neither of those options are entirely satisfactory.
Basically any method that can create a new TCP connection should acquire an optional timeout=None parameter, right? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ _______________________________________________ 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
