To fake things like this, socket.setdefaulttimeout() was added, though I don't know if it actually works. Have you tried that?
--Guido On 7/3/06, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need a timeout in urlopen, just to be able to make: > > >>> urllib2.urlopen("http://no.host.org", timeout=2) > > This is actually not possible, but I'll make it work. > > I want to know, please, if this is useful in general, for me to post a > patch in SF. > > Regards, > > -- > . Facundo > > Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ > PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/ > _______________________________________________ > 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/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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