On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:48:03 -0700, disappearedng wrote: > I know Python but not Perl, and I am interested in knowing which of > these two are a better choice.
I'm partial to *Python*, but, the last time I looked, *urllib2* didn't provide a time-out mechanism that worked under all circumstances. My client-side scripts would usually hang when the server quit responding, which happened a lot. You can get around this by starting an *html* retrieval in its own thread, giving it a deadline, and killing it if it doesn't finish gracefully. A quicker and considerably grittier solution is to supply timeout parms to the *curl* command through the shell. Execute the command and retrieve its output through the *subprocess* module. -- .. Chuck Rhode, Sheboygan, WI, USA .. 1979 Honda Goldwing GL1000 (Geraldine) .. Weather: http://LacusVeris.com/WX .. 64° — Wind SE 5 mph — Sky partly cloudy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
