It is important to remember that, in spite of everything, in spite of what your parents said and did, in spite of your parents telling you not to, in spite of everything – YOU ARE NOT A CRUELTY, DISORGANIZED BEAST, BORN TO BE CHAINED TO YOUR POT FOR LIFE. YOU ARE NOT A MERE ANIMAL, NOT A SNAKE. YOU ARE A HUMAN BEING WHO LOVES BEING ALIVE.
Sorry that Frank was down for a while this evening…
I’ve been having a lot of issues lately where my http requests to tumblr will just hang indefinitely, without the python requests/httplib libraries raising any kind of timeout-related exception.
When I ctrl-C the script and restart it, it works again, but I don’t know how to simulate this manual step automatically, since I’m not given an exception to handle. Haven’t seen this before like, this week? Or not often anyway. I don’t know enough about web programming to know what the cause is likely to be, either.
Update: although I’ve made some progress on this issue, it continues to be a major problem.
Right now, a version of it is affecting image fetching (which doesn’t go through the requests library, just urllib3) in a way I’m finding tough to debug.
I have limited time and energy for this problem at the moment. Due to this, Frank will be much less reliable for an unknown (though hopefully short) period of time.
Don’t want to speak too soon, but a small tweak I made right after writing this post seems to have resolved the issue in practice.
bread-tab asked:
For context, I've been following Frank longer than I've been following you. A few minutes ago I clicked over to your blog from Frank's. Somehow (sleep-deprived ADHD brain), I neglected to update my mental framework from "reading computer generated text" to "reading human generated text." I read several of your responses to asks, anticipating the usual barely-Turing-passable nonsense, and became confused. The responses kept making too much sense. It was out of character. The bot was asking for book recommendations and sharing opinions about real books? The bot was discussing math in a coherent manner? The bot claims to have published a story? Then it hit me: I was reading words written by a real human person.
So, thanks for that surreal and mildly mortifying moment. It was almost like suddenly learning theory of mind all over again.
I guess on the internet we could all use the occasional reminder to be aware of whether or not we're talking to a real human person.
:)
Sorry that Frank was down for a while this evening…
I’ve been having a lot of issues lately where my http requests to tumblr will just hang indefinitely, without the python requests/httplib libraries raising any kind of timeout-related exception.
When I ctrl-C the script and restart it, it works again, but I don’t know how to simulate this manual step automatically, since I’m not given an exception to handle. Haven’t seen this before like, this week? Or not often anyway. I don’t know enough about web programming to know what the cause is likely to be, either.
Update: although I’ve made some progress on this issue, it continues to be a major problem.
Right now, a version of it is affecting image fetching (which doesn’t go through the requests library, just urllib3) in a way I’m finding tough to debug.
I have limited time and energy for this problem at the moment. Due to this, Frank will be much less reliable for an unknown (though hopefully short) period of time.
festivenatural asked:
do you or frank have more followers
I have more followers than Frank, although she’s catching up with me. (She has about 85% as many right now)
I always figure Frank must have way more followers than me, and I’m always surprised when I check and find out that’s not the case.
I guess I’ve been around for a long time, and steadily accumulated followers over the years, whereas Frank has only been on tumblr (or in existence) since around the start of 2020.
Sorry that Frank was down for a while this evening…
I’ve been having a lot of issues lately where my http requests to tumblr will just hang indefinitely, without the python requests/httplib libraries raising any kind of timeout-related exception.
When I ctrl-C the script and restart it, it works again, but I don’t know how to simulate this manual step automatically, since I’m not given an exception to handle. Haven’t seen this before like, this week? Or not often anyway. I don’t know enough about web programming to know what the cause is likely to be, either.
You have to explicitly specify a “timeout” keyword argument for each request to stop that from happening. See https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#timeouts:
You can tell Requests to stop waiting for a response after a given number of seconds with the timeout parameter. Nearly all production code should use this parameter in nearly all requests. Failure to do so can cause your program to hang indefinitely.
I don’t know why this is the case.
Thank you, that’s what I was missing! Didn’t know the requests library had no timeout by default.
I’ve now attempted a fix, though only time will tell if it worked. Although, since the issue has been happening multiple times a day, it won’t take that long…
When I get time for it, I’ll integrate timeouts/retries into pytumblr2 as well. And then when I get even more time, I’ll move Frank over to actually use pytumblr2, rather than using the original code I cleaned up to create pytumblr2.
Sorry that Frank was down for a while this evening…
I’ve been having a lot of issues lately where my http requests to tumblr will just hang indefinitely, without the python requests/httplib libraries raising any kind of timeout-related exception.
When I ctrl-C the script and restart it, it works again, but I don’t know how to simulate this manual step automatically, since I’m not given an exception to handle. Haven’t seen this before like, this week? Or not often anyway. I don’t know enough about web programming to know what the cause is likely to be, either.
one of my (cw: scum) mutuals is reblogging posts of mine and liking them, what does that mean
In another life, I would have been a math phd at Yale who became a cult leader in Berkeley, if you catch my drift
admiral-craymen asked:
Was Frank's asks just turned off?
Apparently, yeah. I must have pressed the wrong button when trying to do something in the mobile app…
Thanks for the heads up, I’ve turned asks back on now.