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How to Handle Timeout error in Python requests

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 22, 2023

Timeouts are critical for making requests in Python. They prevent hanging requests and wastage of resources. The requests library provides flexible ways to set timeouts globally or per-request.

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