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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex b/Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex index 0df7385..5547b15 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ authentication, redirections, cookies and more. The \module{urllib2} module defines the following functions: -\begin{funcdesc}{urlopen}{url\optional{, data}} +\begin{funcdesc}{urlopen}{url\optional{, data}\optional{, timeout}} Open the URL \var{url}, which can be either a string or a \class{Request} object. @@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ parameter is provided. \var{data} should be a buffer in the standard \function{urllib.urlencode()} function takes a mapping or sequence of 2-tuples and returns a string in this format. +The optional \var{timeout} parameter specifies a timeout in seconds for the +connection attempt (if not specified, or passed as None, the global default +timeout setting will be used). This actually only work for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP +and FTPS connections. + This function returns a file-like object with two additional methods: \begin{itemize} @@ -351,12 +356,17 @@ that HTTP errors are a special case). \end{itemize} \end{methoddesc} -\begin{methoddesc}[OpenerDirector]{open}{url\optional{, data}} +\begin{methoddesc}[OpenerDirector]{open}{url\optional{, data}{\optional{, timeout}}} Open the given \var{url} (which can be a request object or a string), optionally passing the given \var{data}. Arguments, return values and exceptions raised are the same as those of \function{urlopen()} (which simply calls the \method{open()} method -on the currently installed global \class{OpenerDirector}). +on the currently installed global \class{OpenerDirector}). The optional +\var{timeout} parameter specifies a timeout in seconds for the connection +attempt (if not specified, or passed as None, the global default timeout +setting will be used; this actually only work for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP +and FTPS connections). + \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}[OpenerDirector]{error}{proto\optional{, |