Bill Janssen wrote:
> If you really need a name other than "timeout" (which seems fine to
> me), how about "waiting-with-mild-trepidation-timeout"?
Something like "response timeout" might be more descriptive.
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> Guido> Since "idel timeout" is not a commonly understood term it would
> Guido> be even better if it was explained without using it.
>
> I think it's commonly understood, but it doesn't mean what the socket
> timeout is used for. It's how long a connection can be idle (the client
> d
On 3/6/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think calling it "timeout" in the API is fine. The documentation
> > can then clarify that it's an idle timeout, except it only applies
> > when blocked in a network operation.
>
> Since
On 3/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Guido> Since "idel timeout" is not a commonly understood term it would
> Guido> be even better if it was explained without using it.
>
> I think it's commonly understood, but it doesn't mean what the socket
> timeout is used for.
Bob> What does idle timeout have to do with urllib2 or any IO layer for
Bob> that matter? I've only seen it as a very high level server-only
Bob> feature...
Nothing at all. I believe Adam just applied that term incorrectly to the
socket timeout parameter.
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Guido> Since "idel timeout" is not a commonly understood term it would
Guido> be even better if it was explained without using it.
I think it's commonly understood, but it doesn't mean what the socket
timeout is used for. It's how long a connection can be idle (the client
doesn't make a
On 3/6/07, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think calling it "timeout" in the API is fine. The documentation
> can then clarify that it's an idle timeout, except it only applies
> when blocked in a network operation.
Since "idel timeout" is not a commonly understood term it would be
even
On 3/6/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > IOW, It's an idle timeout.
>
> That's not in wikipedia. :-)
I know, I checked before posting. ;)
> It's the only timeout that is available to us, realistically; the
> socket module calls
>> Think of it this way. "Timeout" doesn't mean the whole thing needs to
>> be completed in 10 secs. It means that over 10 secs of no activity
>> causes it to be aborted.
Adam> IOW, It's an idle timeout.
Not quite. It's a timeout when you are waiting for some sort of response.
If
On 3/6/07, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 3/6/07, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > >
> > > >> - I'll modify urlopen for it to accept a socket_timeout parameter,
> > > >> default to Non
On 3/6/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >
> > >> - I'll modify urlopen for it to accept a socket_timeout parameter,
> > >> default to None
> > >
> > > I'd call it timeout. There can't really be much
On 3/6/07, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> >> - I'll modify urlopen for it to accept a socket_timeout parameter,
> >> default to None
> >
> > I'd call it timeout. There can't really be much ambiguity can there?
>
> Yes and no. For example, if I do a
> ``urll
Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> - I'll modify urlopen for it to accept a socket_timeout parameter,
>> default to None
>
> I'd call it timeout. There can't really be much ambiguity can there?
Yes and no. For example, if I do a
``urllib2.urlopen("ftp://ftp.myhome.com.ar/blah.txt";, timeout=10)``, the
t
On 3/5/07, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I studied which modifications I need to make into urllib2 to support a
> socket timeout.
>
> - I'll modify urlopen for it to accept a socket_timeout parameter,
> default to None
I'd call it timeout. There can't really be much ambiguity can th
Facundo> So, I think that in the name of clarity, I shall first modify
Facundo> ftplib and httplib, add socket_timeout where is necessary, and
Facundo> then add support to that in the more general urllib2.
I own a patch on SF to do that much:
http://python.org/sf/723312
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