I need a timeout in urlopen, just to be able to make: >>> urllib2.urlopen("http://no.host.org", timeout=2) This is actually not possible, but I'll make it work. I want to know, please, if this is useful in general, for me to post a patch in SF. Regards, -- . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/