On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:42:59 +0100, Ralf Schmitt <r...@systemexit.de> wrote: > Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> writes: > > > It's like calling socket.settimeout(0.1) and then complaining that > > urllib.urlopen() raises exceptions > > but that's not what's happening. you'll see urllib.urlopen raising > exceptions and only afterwards realize that you called into some third > party library code that decided to change the timeout.
What is stopping some some third party library code from calling socket.settimeout(0.1)? --David _______________________________________________ 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