On 2017-08-23, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Jon Ribbens <jon+use...@unequivocal.eu> > wrote: >> I am interested to learn what you mean by "with a thread". How would >> one execute a requests, er, request in a thread with a proper timeout? > > Assuming that by "proper timeout" you mean "limit the entire > download's wall time": Use one thread to do the request, and another > thread to monitor it. Generally, the monitoring thread is your UI > thread (most commonly, the main thread of the program), though it > doesn't have to be. If the monitoring thread decide that the > requesting thread has taken too long, it can cut it off and report > failure to the user.
Yes, what I was interested to learn was how the monitoring thread can "cut off" the requesting thread. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
