On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:32:03 +0100, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > The pythonw.exe may not have the rights to access network resources. >>> Have you set a default timeout for sockets? >>> >>> import socket >>> socket.setdefaulttimeout(10) # 10 seconds > I have added pythonw.exe to allowed exceptions. Disabled firewall > completely. Set socket timeout to 10 seconds. Still nothing. > > urllib.urlretrieve does not return from call.... > > any other ideas?
I'm sorry if I have missed something, or making suggestions you have already tried, but your original post describing the problem is missing from my news server. I gather you are running urlretrieve in a separate thread, inside a GUI? I have learned that whenever I have inexplicable behaviour in a function, I should check my assumptions. In this case, (1) are you sure you have the right urlretrieve, and (2) are you sure that your self.Log() method is working correctly? Just before the problematic call, do this: # was: fpath = urllib.urlretrieve(imgurl)[0] # becomes: print(urllib.__file__, urlretrieve) self.Log(urllib.__file__, urlretrieve) fpath = urllib.urlretrieve(imgurl)[0] and ensure that you haven't accidentally shadowed them with something unexpected. Does the output printed to the console match the output logged? What happens if you take the call to urlretrieve out of the thread and call it by hand? Run urllib.urlretrieve(imgurl) directly in the interactive interpreter. Does it still hang forever? When you say it "never" returns, do you mean *never* or do you mean "I gave up waiting after five minutes"? What happens if you leave it to run all day? Perhaps it returns after e.g. seven hours, which would be a mystery in itself, but at least you have perturbed the problem and have another data point. Maybe it isn't dead, just really slow. How big are the files you are trying to retrieve? Try retrieving a really small file. Then try retrieving a non-existent file. What happens if you call urlretrieve with a reporthook argument? Does it print anything? What happens if you try to browse to imgurl in your web browser? Are you sure the problem is with urlretrieve and not the source? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
