Fixed the semantic of timeout for socket.create_connection and

all the upper level libraries that use it, including urllib2.
Added and fixed some tests, and changed docs correspondingly.
Thanks to John J Lee for the patch and the pusing, :)

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index bf5fc97..ab22a95 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -832,7 +832,8 @@ def noheaders():
 class ftpwrapper:
     """Class used by open_ftp() for cache of open FTP connections."""
 
-    def __init__(self, user, passwd, host, port, dirs, timeout=None):
+    def __init__(self, user, passwd, host, port, dirs,
+                 timeout=socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT):
         self.user = user
         self.passwd = passwd
         self.host = host