requests.{get,post} timeout

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 6:16 AM, Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet at unequivocal.eu> wrote:
> On 2017-08-25, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 5:40 AM, Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet at unequivocal.eu> wrote:
>>> On 2017-08-25, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Neither works with threads. Threads, neither of them work with.
>>> With threads, neither of them works. Works, threads with, neither
>>> of them does. Of them, working with threads, does neither. Threads!
>>> Them work with! Does not!
>>
>> So why are you using multiple threads? You never said that part.
>
> I said it in the majority of the posts I've made in this thread.
> I said it in the post you were responding to just now. I'm using
> threads. Now I've said it again.

You said WHY you are using multiple threads? I can't find it.

But if you're using threads, then you can use other techniques, like
reaching into the request and closing its socket. You get what you pay
for.

ChrisA