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socket.getdefaulttimeout()

timeouts

Returns the default timeout for new sockets: a number of seconds, or None for waiting without a limit.

Syntax

socket.getdefaulttimeout() -> float | None

At import time the value is None: every new socket is blocking and may wait in recv() or connect() forever, a common reason for a 'frozen' script. The value applies only to sockets created after it was set, never to ones already open. Read a particular socket's timeout with its gettimeout() method, not this function.

Examples

import socket
print(socket.getdefaulttimeout())  # → None
with socket.socket() as s:
    print(s.gettimeout())  # → None — ждёт без срока

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