timeout not being respected by client.beta.threads.runs.create_and_poll (or .OpenAI)

[Dev63]

Confirm this is an issue with the Python library and not an underlying OpenAI API

• This is an issue with the Python library

Describe the bug

Calling client.beta.threads.runs.create_and_poll(..., timeout=2.0) will wait as long as it takes before returning (6s, 5 minutes).

To Reproduce

Call client.beta.threads.runs.create_and_poll(..., timeout=2.0) and observe that it does not timeout.

Code snippets

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OS

Windows

Python version

Python 3.9

Library version

openai 1.51.2

[Programmer-RD-AI]

Hi there! I noticed your issue and thought I’d share this related discussion that might offer some insights:

• Timeout not honored in Assistants Python API

[Dev63]

Thank you for trying to help. That's actually a thread I started as well. My expectations of a timeout parameter in a create_and_poll function would be that it would terminate the function if the specified amount of time passed with no resolution. Unfortunately, there’s no documentation of that parameter that I can find. The other poster explains that the timeout parameter actually has to do with some internal networking stuff, and won't actually timeout the request. I'm not 100% sure he is correct, but if so, it's a weird thing to include, and misleading. I do see that the underlying OpenAI API takes an expires_at parameter, which the Python library might have been able to use for real elegance, going a step beyond, but that parameter isn’t really documented either.

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