What about doing it with a per-thread-timeout in TLS (overriding the global one if a thread does have it set in its TLS)? Not as clean, but perhaps far easier to implement than patching dozens of modules/functions/classes to provide timeout= options everywhere...
Alex On 7/5/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, you've convinced me. Now where's that SF patch you were promising? :-) > > --Guido > > On 7/5/06, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2006/7/4, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > This affect all the sockets. > > > > > > So, assuming your app is single-threaded, set the timeout, call > > > urlopen(), and reset the timeout to None. > > > > No, it's multithreaded, :D > > > > > > > > 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. > > > :-) > > > > Yes, it's not SO easy, because, as you said, you have to dig into the > > layers until you hit the actual socket creation and modify the timeout > > for that socket only. > > > > That's why I think that this should be handled in the standard library > > and not left to implement to whoever will need it, :) > > > > -- > > . 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/aleaxit%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ 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
