From: "Horst Wald" <horstwald@hotmail.com> To: zope@zope.org, website-talk-admin@list.ora.com Subject: [Zope] i want a timeout interrupt Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:51:30 +0000

Hi,

can one interrupt the execution of a script when a certain amount of time has passed?

What I want to do: - I start with a given URL. - Then I read the webpage denoted by it into a string like page=urllib.urlopen(URL).read() and if it satisfies a given condition (e.g., it contains a certain word), parse it to find out all the urls it contains. - With these new urls I continue - I take care not to read the same URL twice

This works fine in general, but there are certain web pages that never respond. If you try view them with a browser you get a timeout after a few mintues. But the urllib.urlopen() script keeps waiting until it gets a response and if never gets one, the whole program is stopped. What I would like now is to interrupt the script an return '' if it gets no response after 10secs.

http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-May/089731.html Regards, Julio Dinis Silva _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp