[Python-Dev] Socket timeout patch

[Michael Gilfix]

  I stand corrected. Seems like people want the feature...

On Fri, Jun 07 @ 20:36, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> >>>- The original timeout socket code (in Python) by Tim O'Malley had a
> >>>  global timeout which you could set so that *all* sockets
> >>>  *automatically* had their timeout set.  This is nice if you want it
> >>>  to affect library modules like urllib or ftplib.  That feature is
> >>>  currently missing.  Should we add it?  (I have some concerns about
> >>>  it, in that it might break other code -- and it doesn't seem wise to
> >>>  do this for server-end sockets in general.  But it's a nice hack for
> >>>  smaller programs.)
> 
> Would be nice to have this. Programs like Plucker which do a lot
> of socket work could benefit from it.
> 
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