urllib2 urlopen timeout option

[warpy]

hi,

i am trying to use the timeout option in the urllib2.urlopen:

u = urllib2.urlopen(address, timeout = 120)
uTxt = u.read() 
u.close()

but python wont accept it for some reason,
it will accept it without the timeout which is normal

u = urllib2.urlopen(address)

any ideas?