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authorDong-hee Na <donghee.na92@gmail.com>2020-01-10 14:34:05 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>2020-01-10 14:34:05 (GMT)
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bpo-39259: poplib now rejects timeout = 0 (GH-17912)
poplib.POP3 and poplib.POP3_SSL now raise a ValueError if the given timeout for their constructor is zero to prevent the creation of a non-blocking socket.
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@@ -187,6 +187,13 @@ Exposed the Linux-specific :func:`os.pidfd_open` (:issue:`38692`) and
:data:`os.P_PIDFD` (:issue:`38713`) for process management with file
descriptors.
+poplib
+------
+
+:class:`~poplib.POP3` and :class:`~poplib.POP3_SSL` now raise a :class:`ValueError`
+if the given timeout for their constructor is zero to prevent the creation of
+a non-blocking socket. (Contributed by Dong-hee Na in :issue:`39259`.)
+
threading
---------