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

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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