Fix Python – Why doesn’t requests.get() return? What is the default timeout that requests.get() uses?

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Asked By – Nawaz

In my script, requests.get never returns:

import requests

print ("requesting..")

# This call never returns!
r = requests.get(
    "http://www.some-site.example",
    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?

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Answer

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.example.com',
    proxies={'http': '222.255.169.74:8080'},
    timeout=5
)

This question is answered By – ron rothman

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