timeout on urllib.urlopen?

[Kevin L]

I'm trying to use urllib.urlopen() on a big list of urls, some of which are
dead (they don't return a 404, just no response). And the function just waits.
Is there any way to specify a timeout period for this function? thanks,

Kevin

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