On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:04:28 +0000, MRAB wrote: > On 2013-02-24 18:55, Ian Kelly wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:48 AM, 7segment <7segm...@live.com> wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> The subject is a segment of a sentence which I copied from Python's >>> official homepage. In whole, it reads: >>> >>> "The urlopen() and urlretrieve() functions can cause arbitrarily long >>> delays while waiting for a network connection to be set up. This means >>> that it is difficult to build an interactive Web client using these >>> functions without using threads." >> >> I believe what this is warning about is that if a network connection is >> not immediately available when the functions are called, they will >> block while waiting for one rather than returning control to the >> calling function. If used in an interactive client without threads, >> this would cause the application to appear to "hang" while urllib waits >> for a response. I don't think it's meant to suggest that urllib is >> responsible for the delays; that sounds like a problem with your >> network configuration. >> > When in doubt, check some other way, such as with a browser.
Thank you Ian. Browser is not a good idea, because I need this tool to work automatically. I don't have time to check and compare the response times manually and put them into the database. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
