Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

> I also don't think there is a portable way to detect the NBIO attribute 
> of a socket, so we still have a case of socket.gettimeout() not 
> accurately reflecting the blocking state of the socket

Which case?

> I personally think that this logic should go into socketmodule.c where 
> the rest of the timeout logic sits, rather than be exctracted like this 
> out into the python world.

I think practicality beats purity. If putting it in socket.py ends up producing 
bugs, we'll have to consider moving it to the C extension. Until then, the 
Python code has the advantage of being clear and concise.

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