"The urlopen() and urlretrieve() functions can cause arbitrarily long delays"

[7segment]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:04:28 +0000, MRAB wrote:

> On 2013-02-24 18:55, Ian Kelly wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:48 AM, 7segment <7segment at live.com> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> The subject is a segment of a sentence which I copied from Python's
>>> official homepage. In whole, it reads:
>>>
>>> "The urlopen() and urlretrieve() functions can cause arbitrarily long
>>> delays while waiting for a network connection to be set up. This means
>>> that it is difficult to build an interactive Web client using these
>>> functions without using threads."
>>
>> I believe what this is warning about is that if a network connection is
>> not immediately available when the functions are called, they will
>> block while waiting for one rather than returning control to the
>> calling function.  If used in an interactive client without threads,
>> this would cause the application to appear to "hang" while urllib waits
>> for a response.  I don't think it's meant to suggest that urllib is
>> responsible for the delays; that sounds like a problem with your
>> network configuration.
>>
> When in doubt, check some other way, such as with a browser.

Thank you Ian. Browser is not a good idea, because I need this tool to 
work automatically. I don't have time to check and compare the response 
times manually and put them into the database.