TVRage connection forcibly closed

[dlan1000]

I am getting

tvrage error [Errno 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.

I think this relates to urllib2 and the connection timing out. Is there a way to keep the connection alive? I have seen some mention of this issue on stackoverflow with a few solutions, one of which includes moving to urllib3.

[the01]

Actually it has to do with the server being overloaded (see the first comment here: http://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/1wqxv8/connection_forcibly_closing_err_10054_in_web/) That "exponential backoff" would look something like this:

sleepTime = 1.0
while True:
  try:
    tvrage.quickinfo.fetch(some_showname)
    break
  except TvrageError, e:
    if str(e).startswith("[Errno 10054]"):
      sleepTime *= 2
      time.sleep(sleepTime)
    else:
      raise e

you should stop the loop at some point though, e.g. via a maximum number of retries. Additionally you could limit the number of request per minute (if you are querying a lot of shows)