On 10 Gen, 03:07, "p." <ppetr...@gmail.com> wrote: > i'm using urllib2 in python 2.4 > > wondering how people typically deal with the case in which a download > is too slow. setting the socket timeout only covers those cases where > there is no response in the socket for whatever the timeout period is. > what if, however, i'm getting bits back but want simply to bail out if > the total time to download takes too long? > > i'm trying to avoid creating a whole other thread if possible?
You could retrieve your file in little parts and at the same time have a thread which checks how many bytes have been transmitted every second. --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
