Documentation missing for the requests_timeout parameter of GCSFileSystem

Question

The Google Cloud GCFSFileSystem object takes a requests_timeout parameter with a default value of None. This parameter is not documented.

I assume this is the time before we give up on an individual GCFS request. By analogy with cache_timeout, which is documented, I assume it is a float value in seconds, where None means no timeout.

Is this correct?

Answer 1

Integer value in seconds:

Extract from the google.auth.transport.requests documentation:

timeout (Optional[int]): The number of seconds to wait for a
                response from the server. If not specified or if None, the
                requests default timeout will be used.

Which is called on line 490, according to the gcsfs.core documentation.

Edit: The default timeout is 120 seconds as defined by _DEFAULT_TIMEOUT (credits to @John Hanley for adding this info)