Python - urllib2 timeout

Question

I got something below is snippet of my code

opener = urllib2.build_opener(redirect_handler.MyHTTPRedirectHandler())
opener.addheaders = [('Accept-encoding', 'gzip')]
fetch_timeout = 12
self.response = opener.open(url, timeout=fetch_timeout)

however, it code still waits 60~ seconds before timing out... Any clues?

Answer 1

At a guess you probably need to set the socket timeout

import socket

default_timeout = 12

socket.setdefaulttimeout(default_timeout)