Rob, I tried your code snippet and it worked great. I'm just wondering if getopener( ) call is lightweight so I can just call it in every call to fetchurl( )? Or I should try to share the opener object among fetchurl( ) calls?
Thanks, Jack "Rob Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Try this: > > <code> > import urllib2 > > def getopener(proxy=None): > opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPHandler) > if proxy: > proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({"http": "http://"; + proxy}) > opener.add_handler(proxy_support) > return opener > > def fetchurl(url, opener): > f = opener.open(url) > data = f.read() > f.close() > return data > > print fetchurl('http://www.python.org', getopener('127.0.0.1:8081')) > </code> > > HTH, > Rob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
