I have written a script that uses the urllib2 module to download web pages for parsing.
If there is no network interface, urllib2 hangs for a very long time before it raises an exception. I have set the socket timeout with socket.setdefaulttimeout(), however, where there is no network interface, this seems to be ignored - presumably, because without a network interface, there is nothing for the socket module to interact with. So, can someone point me in the right direction, so that I can catch an exception where there is no network interface? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
