On Monday 10 of October 2005 20:10, Oliver Maunder wrote: > > >Simple question: Is it possible to stop a running function after certain > > >predefined time? > > > > > >I would like to convert this routine to Python using pycurl module, or > > > > maybe > > > > >even standard urllib.urlretrieve. > > If you use urllib.urlretrieve, you can pass in a callback function that > gets called after every few blocks are downloaded. In that function, you > could check how much time has passed since the download started, and quit > the download if necessary. You should be able to do this without threads. > I'm not sure how you stop a download once it's started though! > > Olly
Thanks for an idea, I will look into it. I'm not sure how to stop running download, but at least I have something to start with :-) -- Raduz _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
