timeout in urllib.open()

[John J. Lee]

Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes:
[...]
> This has recently been discussed on python-dev. It's likely that
> certain libraries will acquire a timeout keyword argument in the next
> release, but only if someone is concerned enough to develop the
> appropriate patches - the principle appears to be accepted.

I didn't read the recent python-dev thread, but ISTM this has been
true since the socket timeout feature was added (Python 2.3?).
Apparently so far nobody wanted it enough to actually implement it.


John