John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's no way to set a timeout if you use "urllib" to open a URL. > "HTTP", which "urllib" uses, supports this, but the functionality > is lost at the "urllib" level. > > It's not available via "class URLopener" or "FancyURLopener", either. > > There is a non-thread-safe workaround from 2003 at > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2003-September/020405.html > > but it was rejected as a feature at > > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=803634&group_id=5470 > > without anything better going in. Despite this, current documentation > recommends that approach: > > http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
And...? What specifically are you complaining about? Just as a matter of fact (I'm not grumpy about it): I see from your message that you already know that there is not a shortage of people who spot the lack of this kind of feature. The shortage is of people who will actually do the job of adding the feature -- most importantly, people who will contribute high quality patches, including tests and docs, and people who will review other people's patches. > Someone proposed to fix this > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-July/066967.html > > but was discouraged from doing so. [...] While it might be discouraging to be confronted with tiresome realities of schedules and resources, those are the realities. The flip side is that you can make a real difference by putting in some work. Looking forward to your patch :-) John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
