> > import socket > from urllib2 import urlopen > > # A one-hundredths of a second (0.01) timeout before socket throws > # an exception to demonstrate catching the timeout. > # Obviously, this you will set this greater than 0.01 in real life. > socket.setdefaulttimeout(0.01) > > # example xml feed > xml_source = "http://mlb.mlb.com/partnerxml/gen/news/rss/mlb.xml"; > > try: > data = urlopen(xml_source) > except urllib2.URLError, e: > print 'URLError = ' + str(e.reason)
Also, if you are using multiple threads to retrieve the xml source(s) and any thread blocks due to network problems, the thread can go way by itself after the default timeout expires. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
