urllib.urlopen with threads

[Chris Withers]

Ori Parzan wrote:

> I am very new with those discussion forums, and I wouldn't know how to 
> find neither your old post again 

Well, you must have found it before, so I don't believe you ;-)

> nor this new one   :(

All you have to do to use the list is hit 'Reply All' rather than 'Reply'

> The problem which I have, and I understood that you had to (around 2001 
> if I recall) is this:
> When I use urllib.urlopen(....).read() in a program it works great, but 
> if I do the same inside a function and run it with start_new_thread the 
> urlopen(...) doesn't work - it only get stucked and also stop everything 
> else from working. I also tried doing it with Threading, building a 
> class which inherits from threading.Thread, and using the start(), but 
> the results were the same.

Hmmm, really don't remember that, and I don't do anything similar at the moment, 
so I'm afraid you'll have to look to the list for help...

Chris