[Python-Dev] Adding timeout option to httplib...connect()

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

On Friday 09 February 2007 08:52, skip at pobox.com wrote:
 > In principle it's probably a fine idea.  We should consider if it's
 > possible to develop a uniform approach to timeouts for all the libraries
 > that use sockets though.  Otherwise you run the risk of doing it in
 > different ways for different libraries and having to make a (small, but
 > annoying) semantic leap when going from, say, httplib to smtpllib or
 > ftplib.

Agreed.  In the meanwhile, there's socket.setdefaulttimeout(), which has 
proved quite useful.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.   <fdrake at acm.org>