requests.{get,post} timeout

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 1:47 AM, Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet at unequivocal.eu> wrote:
> On 2017-08-25, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That looks like an exception to me. Not a "process is now terminated".
>> That's what happened when I pressed Ctrl-C (the IP address was
>> deliberately picked as one that doesn't currently exist on my network,
>> so it took time).
>
> Ok yes, so ctrl-C is sending SIGINT which interrupts the system call
> and is then caught as a Python exception, so this is very similar to
> the SIGALRM idea you already suggested, in that it doesn't work with
> threads, except it also relies on there being a person there to press
> ctrl-C. So we still don't have any workable solution to the problem.

The two complement each other. Want something on a specified clock?
SIGALRM. Want to handle that fuzzy notion of "it's been too long"? Let
the user hit Ctrl-C. They work basically the same way, from different
causes.

ChrisA