timeout for urllib2.urlopen() in pre Python 2.6 versions

Question

The urllib2 documentation says that timeout parameter was added in Python 2.6. Unfortunately my code base has been running on Python 2.5 and 2.4 platforms.

Answer 1

I think your best choice is to patch (or deploy an local version of) your urllib2 with the change from the 2.6 maintenance branch

The file should be in /usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py (on linux and 2.4)