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Author	jjlee
Recipients	facundobatista, jjlee
Date	2008年03月22日.00:00:17
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I see this thread: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/552292 But I don't see an explanation of this API decision there that I understand. Because socket.setdefaulttimeout() is a hack for when nothing else is available, there should be a way to avoid that global state. You say that "Now that you can pass the timeout when creating the connection, you shouldn't use the default setting.". That's true, for new code, and for code is able to immediately change -- indeed, that always has been true. Code exists that makes use of socket.setdefaulttimeout(), or requires use of it in order to set a timeout. Can you explain why this state of affairs makes it necessary to force this global state on users of httplib?

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I see this thread:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/552292
But I don't see an explanation of this API decision there that I understand.
*Because* socket.setdefaulttimeout() is a hack for when nothing else is
available, there should be a way to avoid that global state.
You say that "Now that you can pass the timeout when creating the
connection, you shouldn't use the default setting.". That's true, for
new code, and for code is able to immediately change -- indeed, that
always has been true. Code exists that makes use of
socket.setdefaulttimeout(), or requires use of it in order to set a
timeout. Can you explain why this state of affairs makes it necessary
to force this global state on users of httplib?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008年03月22日 00:00:19	jjlee	set	spambayes_score: 0.0890496 -> 0.08904958 recipients: + jjlee, facundobatista
2008年03月22日 00:00:18	jjlee	set	spambayes_score: 0.0890496 -> 0.0890496 messageid: <1206144018.88.0.817603696104.issue2451@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2008年03月22日 00:00:17	jjlee	create

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