On 3/6/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >
> > >> - I'll modify urlopen for it to accept a socket_timeout parameter,
> > >> default to None
> > >
> > > I'd call it timeout. There can't really be much ambiguity can there?
> >
> > Yes and no. For example, if I do a
> > ``urllib2.urlopen("ftp://ftp.myhome.com.ar/blah.txt";, timeout=10)``, the
> > timeout is about the socket or about the file transfer?
>
> Think of it this way. "Timeout" doesn't mean the whole thing needs to
> be completed in 10 secs. It means that over 10 secs of no activity
> causes it to be aborted.IOW, It's an idle timeout. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
