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@demian.brecht , socket.setdefaulttimeout([timeout]) -- it is bad practice, because setting this global varible we may spoil other cases. example "TCP keepalive" [ s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_KEEPALIVE, true) ]
and global variables is bad practice for other things.
and again -- compare what shorter (and what more clear):
 proxy = ServerProxy('http://example.com/gateway/', transport=Transport(
 connection_factory=lambda h: HTTPConnection(h, timeout=42)))
 or
 proxy = ServerProxy('http://example.com/gateway/', timeout=42)
> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.". Having a timeout at the top level ServerProxy object introduces ambiguity and therefore doesn't conform
if you NOT point timeout in "RPC-client" -- you program will freeze or will maked resource leak (with small probability).
"RPC-client" and "timeout" -- these two concepts are inseparable!
you are allowed *NOT_using* "timeout" in "RPC-client" -- *ONLY* in *localhost* operations!