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Answer 1

+1 A:

did you change the default socket timeout somewhere in your script? your example code works reliably for me.

it could be your internet connection, or you might try

import socket
socket.setdefaulttimeout(30)

assuming urllib/2 don't override the socket timeout.

lunixbochs 2010-10-19 00:27:04

no I haven't change anything. Some times it work for me as well but most of times NOT. Try more times please :D

xRobot 2010-10-19 00:28:43

If it works sometimes and not others, then the problem is likely what the error says - your connection is timing out.

Tim 2010-10-19 00:31:09

I ran it a hundred times in a loop and none of them timed out.

lunixbochs 2010-10-19 00:31:46

you can try increasing the socket timeout as described, maybe change the number from 30 to something higher. again, I don't know how urllib2 handles timeouts.

lunixbochs 2010-10-19 00:32:20

mmm very strange :(. I have increased the socket timeout as you described ( 30 50 and 100 ) but it still doesn't work :(

xRobot 2010-10-19 00:34:19

Answer 2

+2 A:

The code seems alright.

The following worked.

>>> import urllib
>>> import urllib2
>>> user_agent = 'curl/7.21.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.4.0) libcurl/7.21.1'
>>> url='http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=hello&amp;rpp=10&amp;page=1'
>>> headers = { 'User-Agent' : user_agent }
>>> req = urllib2.Request(url, None, headers)
>>> response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
>>> the_page = response.read()
>>> print the_page

The other is twitter actually could not respond. This happens once too often with Twitter.

pyfunc 2010-10-19 00:30:51

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