Hi, I like to do the following: Via http I get a stream of data and I like to store this data with a python program. So what I need is to start the downloading and to stop it after a given time. My aproach was to use: urllib.urlretrieve("ULR","FILENAME")
It is fine! But how to stop the retrieving? Because it is a constant stream of data there is no natural end. So I thought I use treading.Thread to do it: def retr(): urllib.urlretrieve("URL","FILENAME") t=threading.Thread(target=retr) t.start() It's fine! The data is downloaded and I'm back in my program to do some other stuff. BUT: I cannot stop the download. How can I achieve this? (Another way of solution (w/o threading) would also helpful, of course!) Thanks for your help, Dirk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list