[issue7547] test_timeout should skip, not fail, when the remote host is not available

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

test_timeout uses www.python.org as a Guinea pig for its socket tests.
Unfortunately sometimes www.python.org is down, which gives the
following kind of failures (seen on a buildbot recently):

test test_timeout failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\buildslave\3.x.moore-windows\build\lib\test\test_timeout.py",
line 133, in testRecvTimeout
    self.sock.connect(self.addr_remote)
socket.error: [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the
connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or
established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond

test_timeout should catch the error and simply skip the test with an
appropriate message.

There's a similar problem with test_smtpnet which uses gmail as its
remote SMTP-SSL provider.

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components: Tests
messages: 96615
nosy: pitrou
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: test_timeout should skip, not fail, when the remote host is not available
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2

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