ECO-CMP-PY-006 — Missing network timeout¶

Category: Computation (CMP)
Family: Python (PY)
Layer: Network
Tier: 2
Severity: error
Tags: python, network, timeouts
Legacy ID: ECO-PY-006

Summary¶

Network calls without explicit timeouts can hang and cascade failures.

Without timeouts, partial outages become thread exhaustion and retry storms.

{
  "confidence": 0.85,
  "notes": "High propagation under dependency slowness.",
  "type": "reliability"
}

{
  "languages": [
    "python"
  ],
  "method": "ast"
}

{
  "guidance": "Set explicit connect/read timeouts; prefer client defaults + overrides.",
  "tradeoffs": "Requires tuning per endpoint."
}

{
  "system_layers": [
    "network"
  ]
}