Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > This has recently been discussed on python-dev. It's likely that > certain libraries will acquire a timeout keyword argument in the next > release, but only if someone is concerned enough to develop the > appropriate patches - the principle appears to be accepted.
I didn't read the recent python-dev thread, but ISTM this has been true since the socket timeout feature was added (Python 2.3?). Apparently so far nobody wanted it enough to actually implement it. John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
