import socket
self.__socket = socket.create_connection ([host, port], 10000)
value = self.__socket.recv (4096)

This code sometimes hangs despite having a non-None timeout specified. GDB says:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x76d33c94 in __GI___poll (fds=0x7ea55148, nfds=1, timeout=10000)
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:29
#1  0x001e8014 in poll (__timeout=<optimized out>, __nfds=<optimized out>, 
    __fds=<optimized out>, __fds=<optimized out>, __nfds=<optimized out>, 
    __timeout=<optimized out>)
    at /usr/include/arm-linux-gnueabihf/bits/poll2.h:46
#2  internal_select (writing=writing@entry=0, interval=<optimized out>, 
    connect=0, connect@entry=4156908, s=<optimized out>)
    at ../Modules/socketmodule.c:745
#3  0x001ec588 in sock_call_ex (s=s@entry=0x76979d68, writing=writing@entry=0, 
    sock_func=sock_func@entry=0x1e736c <sock_recv_impl>, data=0x7ea551b0, 
    data@entry=0x7ea551a8, connect=connect@entry=0, err=err@entry=0x0, 
    timeout=10000000000) at ../Modules/socketmodule.c:840
#4  0x001ed394 in sock_call (data=0x7ea551a8, func=0x1e736c <sock_recv_impl>, 
    writing=0, s=0x76979d68) at ../Modules/socketmodule.c:3287
#5  sock_recv_guts (s=s@entry=0x76979d68, cbuf=<optimized out>, 
    len=<optimized out>, flags=<optimized out>)
    at ../Modules/socketmodule.c:3287
#6  0x001ed51c in sock_recv (s=0x76979d68, args=<optimized out>)
    at ../Modules/socketmodule.c:3318

Googling for this problem turned up this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56038224/poll-waits-indefinitely-although-timeout-is-specified

If we look at socket module.c line 756 (Python 3.7.9 version), we see that we're indeed not checking for the pollfd.revents, and are therefore missing socket errors.

PR coming up in a few days.