Martin Panter added the comment: I don’t like the sound of improvement 2. I think it would break existing use cases, e.g. HTTPConnection(timeout=...), urlopen(timeout=...). If you want a HTTP request to abort if it takes a long time, how is that behaviour broken?
Regarding improvement 1, I think Victor’s 3.5 documentation explains how the timeout works fairly well. Perhaps you meant for this bug to be about pre-3.5 versions? Also, see Issue 7322 for discussion of how to handle exceptions when reading from sockets and other streams. E.g. what should readline() do when it has read half a line and then gets an exception, and should you be allowed to read again after handling an exception? In my mind the readline() and sendall() cases are somewhat complementary. ---------- nosy: +martin.panter _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25586> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
