New submission from Sidnei da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 'urllib2' has introduced a configurable 'timeout' setting by assigning to the 'timeout' attribute of the urllib2.Request object. However the implementation is flawed:
- the 'timeout' attribute is set in OpenerDirector.open() and nowhere else - if someone overrides OpenerDirector.open() (btw: mechanize does this), then the 'timeout' attribute will never be set, breaking other parts of the code which require the 'timeout' attribute to be present. A simple workaround for this would be to do one or more of: a) define the 'timeout' attribute as socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT at class-level b) initialize the 'timeout' attribute on urllib2.Request.__init__() ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 74541 nosy: sidnei severity: normal status: open title: new urllib2.Request 'timeout' attribute needs to have a default type: behavior versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4079> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
