Demian Brecht added the comment:
+ loewis as he's listed as the xmlrpc expert
If you're worried about the number of lines, turn the function into a lambda:
proxy = ServerProxy('http://example.com/gateway/', transport=Transport(
connection_factory=lambda h: HTTPConnection(h, timeout=42)))
I think that the problem with the way that you're looking at the problem:'just
only for adding "timeout"', when what you're fundamentally after is to modify
the attribute of an object two levels removed by composition.
I /do/ agree that this is slightly more complex than simply setting a timeout
parameter, but I also think that it's actually quite a bit more flexible and
practically useful.
Borrowing from PEP20: "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. Should the connection_factory concept
be used, having a timeout parameter at the Transport level also introduces
ambiguity. Setting the timeout through a custom HTTPConnection instantiated
through connection_factory is an obvious way to do it (especially if
documented) and is marginally more code.
If you /only/ care about the timeout and really don't want to be bothered with
the connection_factory, you can always set the global socket timeout for the
given request with:
socket.setdefaulttimeout([timeout])
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