[urllib2] No time-out?

[Gilles Ganault]

Hello

I'm using urllib2 to download web pages. The strange thing in the code
below, is that it seems like urllib2.urlopen retries indefinitely by
itself instead of raising an exception:

=====
	timeout = 30
	socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout)

	i = 0
	while i < 5:
		try:
			url  = 'http://www.acme.com'
			print url
			req = urllib2.Request(url, None, headers)
			response = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
		except:
			#Never called :-/
			print Timed-out."
			if i == 4:
				print "Exiting."
				connection.close(True)
				sys.exit()
			else:
				print "Trying again"
				i = i + 1
				time.sleep(10)
			continue
=====

I haven't found a switch within urllib2 that would tell it to raise an
exception after it times out trying to download a web page. Any idea
how to have it stop trying after 5 tries?

Thank you.