Timeout doesn't exist in Python 2.5, so we wrap it around a try/catch

and, in case of exception, we call it without the parameter.

mitterlib/network/twitter.py

@@ -261,7 +261,12 @@ class Connection(NetworkBase):
         timeout = self._options['NetworkManager']['timeout']
         try:
             _log.debug('Starting request of %s (timeout %d)' % (url, timeout))
+            try:
                 response = urllib2.urlopen(request, timeout=timeout)
+            except TypeError, e:
+                # Python 2.5 don't have the timeout parameter.
+                response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
+
             data = response.read()
         except urllib2.HTTPError, exc:
             _log.debug('HTTPError: %d' % (exc.code))

mitterlib/ui/helpers/gdk_avatarcache.py

@@ -96,7 +96,11 @@ class AvatarCache(object):
         timeout = self._timeout
         _log.debug('Starting request of %s (timeout %ds)' % (
             url, timeout))
+        try:
             response = urllib2.urlopen(request, timeout=timeout)
+        except TypeError, e:
+            # Python 2.5 doesn't have a timeout parameter
+            response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
         data = response.read()
         _log.debug('Request completed')
         return (avatar, owner, data)