Aahz wrote: > > Assuming you have correctly tracked down the problem area, I would call > that a thread bug in Python. But my experience is that you simply have > run into a problem with the socket. I would suggest that using > socket.setdefaulttimeout() would work just as well.
I believe that solution, also would not work. This note is included in the socket documentation, regarding "timeout mode": http://docs.python.org/lib/socket-objects.html "A consequence of this is that file objects returned by the makefile() method must only be used when the socket is in blocking mode; in timeout or non-blocking mode file operations that cannot be completed immediately will fail." smtplib.SMTP uses file objects when reading SMTP responses. If I used setdefaulttimeout(), then the socket would be in timeout mode and the above note would be applicable. I am not at all above calling python's behavior a bug, except that it seemed like a known behavior given the note in the thread documentation regarding built-in functions that block on I/O. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
