a legacy timeout value.

        The timeout value used by httplib.py sets the same timeout on the
        connect(), and recv() socket requests. This creates a :class:`Timeout`
        object that sets the individual timeouts to the ``timeout`` value
        passed to this function.

        :param timeout: The legacy timeout value.
        :type timeout: integer, float, sentinel default object, or None
        :return: Timeout object
        :rtype: :class:`Timeout`
        )