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% To do:
+% PYTHONINSPECT
+% list.index
+% file.encoding
+% doctest extensions
+% new version of IDLE
+% XML-RPC nil extension
% MacOS framework-related changes (section of its own, probably)
%\section{Introduction \label{intro}}
applications may suffer slower response time, but that's easily fixed
by setting the limit back to a lower number using
\function{sys.setcheckinterval(\var{N})}.
+The limit can be retrieved with the new
+\function{sys.getcheckinterval()} function.
\item One minor but far-reaching change is that the names of extension
types defined by the modules included with Python now contain the
can call the \method{settimeout(\var{t})} method on a socket object to
set a timeout of \var{t} seconds. Subsequent socket operations that
take longer than \var{t} seconds to complete will abort and raise a
-\exception{socket.error} exception.
+\exception{socket.timeout} exception.
The original timeout implementation was by Tim O'Malley. Michael
Gilfix integrated it into the Python \module{socket} module and