python FancyURLopener timeout

Question

Hi,

is there a way to set connection timeout for FancyURLopener()? I'm using FancyURLopener.retrieve() to download a file, but sometimes it just stucks and that's all... I think this is because it's still trying to connect and it's not possible. So is there a way to set that timeout?

Thanks for every reply

Answer 1

Sorry, solved. I didn't realize that I could use something like this...

fileName = string.split(url, '/')[-1]
data = urllib2.urlopen(url, timeout = 5)              //Connection timeout set to 5 secs
newF = open(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), fileName), "wb")
newF.write(data.read())
newF.close()

Answer 2

If you want to use retrieve() with a timeout, you can set it in the socket module.

import socket
socket.setdefaulttimeout(5)

Source: http://docs.python.org/py3k/howto/urllib2.html#sockets-and-layers