Why doesn't requests.get() return? What is the default timeout that requests.get() uses?

Question

In my script, requests.get never returns:

import requests  print ("requesting..")  # This call never returns! r = requests.get(     "http://www.some-site.com",     proxies = {'http': '222.255.169.74:8080'}, )  print(r.ok) 

What could be the possible reason(s)? Any remedy? What is the default timeout that get uses?

Answer 1

What is the default timeout that get uses?

The default timeout is None, which means it'll wait (hang) until the connection is closed.

Just specify a timeout value, like this:

r = requests.get(     'http://www.justdial.com',     proxies={'http': '222.255.169.74:8080'},     timeout=5 )