Re: feedparser hanging after I/O error

Date	2011-06-03 10:44 -0700
From	John Nagle <nagle@animats.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: feedparser hanging after I/O error
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On 6/2/2011 4:40 AM, xDog Walker wrote:
> On Wednesday 2011 June 01 10:34, John Nagle wrote:
>> I have a program which uses "feedparser".  It occasionally hangs when
>> the network connection has been lost, and remains hung after the network
>> connection is restored.
>
> My solution is to download the feed file using wget, then hand that file to
> feedparser. feedparser will also hang forever on a url if the server doesn't
> serve.

    Then you don't get the poll optimization, where feedparser sends the
token to indicate that it's already seen version N.

    This is for a program that's constantly polling RSS feeds and 
fetching changes.  Feedparser is good for that, until the network
fails temporarily.

					John Nagle

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feedparser hanging after I/O error John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2011-06-01 10:34 -0700
  Re: feedparser hanging after I/O error xDog Walker <thudfoo@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 04:40 -0700
    Re: feedparser hanging after I/O error John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2011-06-03 10:44 -0700

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