[Python-Dev] Adding timeout to socket.py and httplib.py

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> It's unlikely to be granted. ... The Python call just wraps the
 > system call which has a similar API.

What about letting it accept both?

Maintaining strict consistency with the C API here
at the cost of causing pain on almost all uses of
the function seems to be a case of purity beating
practicality.

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Greg