how do i set a timeout value for python's mechanize?
Alex is correct: mechanize.urlopen takes a timeout argument. Therefore, just insert a number of seconds in floating point: mechanize.urlopen('http://url/', timeout=30.0).
The background, from the source of mechanize.urlopen:
def urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=_sockettimeout._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT): ... return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)What is mechanize._sockettimeout._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT you ask? It's just the socket module's setting.
import sockettry: _GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUTexcept AttributeError: _GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = object()