urllib.urlopen blocking all threads for seconds when no connection or exception?

[Aahz]

In article <3df9d641$0$3016$9b622d9e at news.freenet.de>,
Robert  <k.robert at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>Think the only solitution would be to fork an other process? (what a mess)

That's what Twisted is for:
http://www.twistedmatrix.com/products/twisted
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