how to time-out gracefully while downloading with python

Question

I\'m downloading a huge set of files with following code in a loop:

try:
    urllib.urlretrieve(url2download, destination_on_local_filesystem)
except KeyboardInt         


        

Answer 1

There's a discussion of this here. Caveats (in addition to the ones they mention): I haven't tried it, and they're using urllib2, not urllib (would that be a problem for you?) (Actually, now that I think about it, this technique would probably work for urllib, too).