import requests

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url = 'https://w3schools.com/python/demopage.php'

myobj = {'somekey': 'somevalue'}

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#to demonstrate the 'timeout' parameter, we set the timeout to 0.001 to guarantee that the connection will be timed out:

x = requests.post(url, data = myobj, timeout=0.001)

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print(x.text)

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