Zhongyue Luo added the comment: David,
How about like below? elif timeout < sys.float_info.epsilon: raise ValueError("'timeout' must be a positive number") The docstring has been there for quite a while and IMHO it just doesn't make sense passing 0.0 as a timeout value. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18676> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com