How to handle IncompleteRead: in python

Question

I am trying to fetch some data from a website. However it returns me incomplete read. The data I am trying to get is a huge set of nested links. I did some rese

Answer 1

What worked for me is catching IncompleteRead as an exception and harvesting the data you managed to read in each iteration by putting this into a loop like below: (Note, I am using Python 3.4.1 and the urllib library has changed between 2.7 and 3.4)

try:
    requestObj = urllib.request.urlopen(url, data)
    responseJSON=""
    while True:
        try:
            responseJSONpart = requestObj.read()
        except http.client.IncompleteRead as icread:
            responseJSON = responseJSON + icread.partial.decode('utf-8')
            continue
        else:
            responseJSON = responseJSON + responseJSONpart.decode('utf-8')
            break

    return json.loads(responseJSON)

except Exception as RESTex:
    print("Exception occurred making REST call: " + RESTex.__str__())