Re: [Python-Dev] httplib &c. timeouts and global state

2008-03-26 Thread Alan Kennedy
[This message will not be threaded properly since I wasn't subscribed at the time the original was sent] [John] > What I found in the archive is this thread (sorry for the > non-python.org URL): > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/555039?do=post_view_threaded#555039 > > In that di

[Python-Dev] httplib &c. timeouts and global state

2008-03-21 Thread John J Lee
http://python.org/sf/2451 """ The new timeout support in 2.6 makes use of new function socket.create_connection(). socket.create_connection() provides no way to disable timeouts, other than by relying on socket.getdefaulttimeout() returning None. This is unfortunate, because it was the purpose o