Handling `urlopen` timeouts in Python 2.7 when fetching large files
I'm working on a personal project and I recently switched to I'm working on a Python 2.7 application that downloads large files from a remote server using `urllib`. However, I'm working with issues with timeouts when the files exceed a certain size, which causes the program to hang indefinitely. I've tried setting the timeout in the `urlopen` call, but it seems to have no effect. Here's a simplified version of my code: ```python import urllib url = 'http://example.com/largefile.zip' try: response = urllib.urlopen(url, timeout=10) # setting a timeout of 10 seconds data = response.read() except urllib.URLError as e: print('behavior fetching the file:', e) except Exception as e: print('An unexpected behavior occurred:', e) ``` When I run this code with a particularly large file, it often hangs instead of timing out. I've checked that my internet connection is stable, and the server responds fine with smaller files. Is there a better way to handle timeouts with large downloads in Python 2.7? Also, could there be any network configuration issues that I'm missing? Any guidance on best practices for handling this would be appreciated! I'm working on a service that needs to handle this. I'm coming from a different tech stack and learning Python. I'd be grateful for any help. Cheers for any assistance!