[Python-Dev] PEP 433: Choose the default value of the new cloexec parameter (original) (raw)

Ralf Schmitt ralf at systemexit.de
Sun Jan 27 21:56:06 CET 2013

"R. David Murray" <rdmurray at bitdance.com> writes:

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:42:59 +0100, Ralf Schmitt <ralf at systemexit.de> wrote:

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

> It's like calling socket.settimeout(0.1) and then complaining that > urllib.urlopen() raises exceptions but that's not what's happening. you'll see urllib.urlopen raising exceptions and only afterwards realize that you called into some third party library code that decided to change the timeout. What is stopping some some third party library code from calling socket.settimeout(0.1)?

Nothing. That's the point. You just wonder why urlopen fails when the global timeout has been changed by that third party library.

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