urllib module and network connection

[hyon]

Hi,

I have a program that connects to the internet via urllib and httplib modules. For the httplib part of the code, I open and close connection as follows:

conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(SERVER_NAME)
conn.request("POST", UPLOAD_DIRECTORY, params, headers)
conn.close()

However, for my urllib calls, I do not know how to close the connections. The call that I make look like this:

onlineVersionFile = urllib.urlopen(URL + u"Version.py")

Also, how much extra battery does it drain to leave these connections open? My 5500 is collecting accelerometer data constantly and so the battery life is a little less than 24 hours. Does having this connection open all the time affect the battery life a lot?

Thanks,
Hyon

[gaba88]

hi Hyon
there is a function close() inside the the URLopener class of the urllib module. But as far as i know there is no direct function to close a connection in urllib.

Hope this helps
Enjoy Pythoning
Gaba88