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

[R. David Murray]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:42:59 +0100, Ralf Schmitt <ralf at systemexit.de> wrote:
> 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.

What is stopping some some third party library code from calling
socket.settimeout(0.1)?

--David