[Python-Dev] PEP 433: Choose the default value of the new cloexec parameter

[Ralf Schmitt]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

> It's like calling socket.settimeout(0.1) and then complaining that
> urllib.urlopen() raises exceptions

but that's not what's happening. you'll see urllib.urlopen raising
exceptions and only afterwards realize that you called into some third
party library code that decided to change the timeout.