threads and urllib

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <b03e80d.0202201228.76ac8525 at posting.google.com>,
Sandy Norton <sandskyfly at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>This simple little program retrieves web pages using threads and
>urllib. Now it seems to work fine with many websites, however, more
>often than not it just hangs there and the thread (or is it the
>socket?) does not time out and die.
>
>Is there anyway to specify a time limit in which the operation can
>happen and enforce it in the code?

http://www.timo-tasi.org/python/timeoutsocket.py
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