On 3/6/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/6/07, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IOW, It's an idle timeout. > > That's not in wikipedia. :-)
I know, I checked before posting. ;) > It's the only timeout that is available to us, realistically; the > socket module calls it timeout everywhere. So I think that should be a > good name for it. The argument name doesn't need to server as complete > documentation. I don't expect we'll ever see another kind of timeout > added to this same API, and if we do, we'll just have to pick a > different name for it. ;-) On 3/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not quite. It's a timeout when you are waiting for some sort of response. > If you make a connection to an ftp server to send files the connection > shouldn't be aborted if you take more than 10 seconds to prepare the file > you want to upload. OTOH, if you send the file and don't get an > acknowledgement back for 10 seconds, then you get a TimeoutError. I think calling it "timeout" in the API is fine. The documentation can then clarify that it's an idle timeout, except it only applies when blocked in a network operation. -- 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
