[Python-Dev] I vote to reject: Adding timeout to socket.py and httplib.py. (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Mar 21 23:51:52 CET 2007


On 3/21/07, Alan Kennedy <python-dev at alan.kennedy.name> wrote:

[Greg Ewing] > or > > d) Put it in another module > > Is it time for a sockettools module, maybe?

+1!

-1. The new module would be just as much a jumble of unrelated APIs as the socket module already is, so there's no particularly good reason to create an arbitrary separation. Also, KISS.

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