The current kqueue documentation specifies that timeout is a keyword argument but it can only be passed as a positional argument right now:

>>> import select
>>> ko = select.kqueue()
>>> ko.control([1], 0, timeout=10)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: control() takes no keyword arguments
>>> help(ko.control)
Help on built-in function control:

control(...) method of select.kqueue instance
    control(changelist, max_events[, timeout=None]) -> eventlist
    
    Calls the kernel kevent function.
    - changelist must be an iterable of kevent objects describing the changes
      to be made to the kernel's watch list or None.
    - max_events lets you specify the maximum number of events that the
      kernel will return.
    - timeout is the maximum time to wait in seconds, or else None,
      to wait forever. timeout accepts floats for smaller timeouts, too.

This may be related to https://bugs.python.org/issue3852 in which the max_events argument used to be documented as optional but the code made it mandatory.