Johnny Lee wrote: > Alex Martelli wrote: > >>Johnny Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ... >> >>> try: >>> webPage = urllib2.urlopen(url) >>> except urllib2.URLError: >> >> ... >> >>> webPage.close() >>> return True >>>---------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> But every time when I ran to the 70 to 75 urls (that means 70-75 >>>urls have been tested via this way), the program will crash and all the >>>urls left will raise urllib2.URLError until the program exits. I tried >>>many ways to work it out, using urllib, set a sleep(1) in the filter (I >>>thought it was the massive urls crashed the program). But none works. >>>BTW, if I set the url from which the program crashed to base url, the >>>program will still crashed at the 70-75 url. How can I solve this >>>problem? thanks for your help >> >>Sure looks like a resource leak somewhere (probably leaving a file open >>until your program hits some wall of maximum simultaneously open files), >>but I can't reproduce it here (MacOSX, tried both Python 2.3.5 and >>2.4.1). What version of Python are you using, and on what platform? >>Maybe a simple Python upgrade might fix your problem... >> >> >>Alex > > > Thanks for the info you provided. I'm using 2.4.1 on cygwin of WinXP. > If you want to reproduce the problem, I can send the source to you. > > This morning I found that this is caused by urllib2. When I use urllib > instead of urllib2, it won't crash any more. But the matters is that I > want to catch the HTTP 404 Error which is handled by FancyURLopener in > urllib.open(). So I can't catch it. >
I'm using exactly that configuration, so if you let me have that source I could take a look at it for you. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
