[Python-Dev] Adding timeout option to httplib...connect()

[Brett Cannon]

On 2/10/07, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>     Guido> I'm not going to change ftplib.py and all the others.
>
>     >> Also understood.  This has, as far as I know, been the response of
>     >> everybody who has encountered this problem before.
>
>     Martin> You should read your SF bug list more frequently, then. You are
>     Martin> currently assigned bug #723312 (and have been since 2003-04-17),
>     Martin> which has a patch to change ftplib.
>
> I updated the patch to be compatible with current svn:
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>     http://python.org/sf/723312
>
> All tests pass.  Well, the only tests which fail for me seem to have nothing
> to do with networking.  I looked at gopherlib for about five seconds then
> decided it wasn't worth it.  (Shouldn't it be deprecated and moved out to
> PyPI for external maintenance?

PEP 3108 has gopherlib slated for removal.

-Brett