Timeouts with urllib2

[Fazer]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1.1079382673.742.python-list at python.org>...
> Fazer> I was wondering what's the best way of setting timeouts when
>     Fazer> working with urllib2.
> 
> Using 2.3+:
> 
>     >>> import socket
>     >>> socket.setdefaulttimeout(3)
>     >>> import urllib2
>     >>> urllib2.urlopen("http://www.musi-cal.com/search?performers=Greg+Brown")
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>       File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 130, in urlopen
>         return _opener.open(url, data)
>       File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 338, in open
>         response = self._open(req, data)
>       File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 356, in _open
>         '_open', req)
>       File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 317, in _call_chain
>         result = func(*args)
>       File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 988, in http_open
>         return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
>       File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 971, in do_open
>         raise URLError(err)
>     urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error timed out>
> 
> Skip

Wow thanks!  Any idea how I can accomplish this in Python 2.2 versions?