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

You must set timeout in two places.

import urllib2
import socket

socket.setdefaulttimeout(30)
f = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.python.org/', timeout=30)