Why doesn't requests.get() return? What is the default timeout that requests.get() uses?

Question

In my script, requests.get never returns:

import requests

print (\"requesting..\")

# This call never returns!
r = requests.get(
    \"http://w         


        

Answer 1

Reviewed all the answers and came to conclusion that the problem still exists. On some sites requests may hang infinitely and using multiprocessing seems to be overkill. Here's my approach(Python 3.5+):

import asyncio

import aiohttp


async def get_http(url):
    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(conn_timeout=1, read_timeout=3) as client:
        try:
            async with client.get(url) as response:
                content = await response.text()
                return content, response.status
        except Exception:
            pass


loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
task = loop.create_task(get_http('http://example.com'))
loop.run_until_complete(task)
result = task.result()
if result is not None:
    content, status = task.result()
    if status == 200:
        print(content)

UPDATE

If you receive a deprecation warning about using conn_timeout and read_timeout, check near the bottom of THIS reference for how to use the ClientTimeout data structure. One simple way to apply this data structure per the linked reference to the original code above would be:

async def get_http(url):
    timeout = aiohttp.ClientTimeout(total=60)
    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(timeout=timeout) as client:
        try:
            etc.