[docs] [issue8595] Explain the default timeout in http-client-related libraries

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr> added the comment:

That way, if _HTTP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT is never set, it will use the the socket timeout. Admittedly I'd rather see all uses of module globals go away, but I think this would be a good compromise.

Why not provide {httplib,urllib}.{set,get}defaulttimeout() instead? ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8595> _______________________________________