On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> wrote: > in practice [monkeypatching socket] worked well with urllib in python27.
Excellent! That's empirical evidence of success, then. Like with all monkey-patching, you need to keep it as visible as possible, but if your driver script is only a page or two of code, it should be pretty clear what's going on. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list