On 7/4/06, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2006/7/3, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > To fake things like this, socket.setdefaulttimeout() was added, though > > I don't know if it actually works. Have you tried that? > > This affect all the sockets.
So, assuming your app is single-threaded, set the timeout, call urlopen(), and reset the timeout to None. > And I hit the problem when servicing > information with a web service (TCPServer), and I need to timeout the > connection of the URLOpen *only*. That's not so easy even if you were to have a timeout parameter to urlopen(). You'd have to implement that peculiarity in all the layers (in this case, urllib and httplib; and possibly ftplib, gopherlib etc. :-) -- --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
