Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > The corresponding defect has a long (and bothersome) discussion. I am, > however, surprised that this was not considered a "bug" and backported.
I think Martin's argument was that it could break compatibility. > I can agree with the fix (my number 1 suggestion) but I would have > liked to see it done in socketmodule.c where the timeout semantics are > all defined, rather than as a cludgy special case in socket.py There's definitely a reason for doing it in socket.py rather than socketmodule.c, although I don't remember which one. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11721> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
