Andrej A Antonov added the comment: ok, let's go to other side of this problem:
question: why default transport (xmlrpc.client.Transport()) is not setting value of timeout?`` answer: because *unknown* which value need to using by default. in various cases programmer need various timeout. default value of timeout for default transport -- what may be this number? may be value "300" for timeout of default transport (xmlrpc.client.Transport()) may be normal in *most_cases*. but this will brake legacy soft that using socket.setdefaulttimeout(...) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14134> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com