"dumbkiwi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have written a script that uses the urllib2 module to download web > pages for parsing. > > If there is no network interface, urllib2 hangs for a very long time > before it raises an exception. I have set the socket timeout with > socket.setdefaulttimeout(), however, where there is no network > interface, this seems to be ignored - presumably, because without a > network interface, there is nothing for the socket module to interact > with. > > So, can someone point me in the right direction, so that I can catch > an exception where there is no network interface?
Are you on Windows or something Unixy? Presumably Windows? (Unix systems almost always have at least a loopback interface) John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
