urllib.urlopen: how to check the time of connection?

[Igor V. Pletnev]

Hi,
could somebody advise on any [platform independent] idiom/hint to monitor the
time of [http] connection by urllib.urlopen? It often appears too lengthy,
and I would like to check/break out at some upper limit.

Thanks in advance & all the best,
Igor
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Dr. Igor V. Pletnev
Principal Research Scientist
Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, 119899 GSP-3 Moscow, RUSSIA 
E-mail     plet at plet.ls.ac.ru   pletnev at analyt.chem.msu.su