Most socket request libraries have timeouts on connection attempts, have you
looked into that already?
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Serdar Tumgoren <zstumgo...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> Is there a way to break out of a function if it exceeds a certain time
> limit for execution?
>
> There's a Website I'm scraping on a regular basis, and for some reason
> that I can't divine the site has radically varying response times. In
> some cases, I get a result vary quickly; at other times, my entire
> program hangs because of this one call to an external source. Even
> more strange, if I quit the scrape when it appears to hang and then
> try it again a few moments later, it will sometimes work just fine
> ("sometimes" being the key word). I'm not certain, but I'm guessing
> this inconsistent behavior has something to do with the site that I'm
> scraping.
>
> So again, is there a way to place a time limit on the execution of a
> function, after which you can break out of it and then retry it or
> move along with the rest of your program?
>
> TIA,
> Serdar
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