Re: [Python-Dev] I vote to reject: Adding timeout to socket.pyand httplib.py.

2007-03-21 Thread Facundo Batista
Guido van Rossum wrote: > This is why I proposed to *get rid of* the distinction between > timeout=None and timeout not specified. Let an unspecified timeout > default to None, and if timeout is None, skip the settimeout() call. +1 I'll abuse of your dictatorship, and let's see if we can finall

Re: [Python-Dev] I vote to reject: Adding timeout to socket.pyand httplib.py.

2007-03-21 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 3/21/07, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > (like httplib before the patch), I am personally in favor of going > > back to defaulting timeout to None and skipping the settimeout() call > > in _create_connection() if timeout is None. IMO the use case where

Re: [Python-Dev] I vote to reject: Adding timeout to socket.pyand httplib.py.

2007-03-21 Thread Facundo Batista
Guido van Rossum wrote: > (like httplib before the patch), I am personally in favor of going > back to defaulting timeout to None and skipping the settimeout() call > in _create_connection() if timeout is None. IMO the use case where > there is a global timeout set and one library wants to overrid

Re: [Python-Dev] I vote to reject: Adding timeout to socket.pyand httplib.py.

2007-03-21 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 3/21/07, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Josiah Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Alan is off his rocker. > > To me, this sort of ad hominen comment is anti-productive and out-of-place > in technical discussion. > > "Facundo Batista" <[EMAIL

Re: [Python-Dev] I vote to reject: Adding timeout to socket.pyand httplib.py.

2007-03-21 Thread Terry Reedy
"Josiah Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Alan is off his rocker. To me, this sort of ad hominen comment is anti-productive and out-of-place in technical discussion. "Facundo Batista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >It's better