inaccuracy in httplib timeout documentation

[jjlee]

BPO	2452
Nosy	@birkenfeld, @facundobatista

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title = 'inaccuracy in httplib timeout documentation'
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[jjlee]

The documentation for the new timeout support in 2.6 states that "If the
optional timeout parameter is given, connection attempts will timeout
after that many seconds". In fact, other non-blocking. The only
operation that might block for longer than the requested timeout is the
getaddrinfo() in socket.create_connection().

There may be similar inaccuracies in the docs of other modules to which
timeout support was added.

[jjlee]

Oops, un-finished sentence in my opening comment ("In fact, other
non-blocking.") should have read:

In fact, other blocking operations will also time out.

[birkenfeld]

Thanks, fixed in r63058.