[Python] Jenkins Job Failing for urllib3: ValueError: Timeout value connect was <object object...

As of May 4, 2023, at 16:00, I started seeing one of our Jenkins job failing with the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/jenkins/agent/workspace/my-jenkins-job/.tox/appdev-ci-staging/lib/python3.9/site-packages/jenkins/__init__.py", line 822, in get_info
return json.loads(self.jenkins_open(
File "/home/jenkins/agent/workspace/my-jenkins-job/.tox/appdev-ci-staging/lib/python3.9/site-packages/jenkins/__init__.py", line 560, in jenkins_open
return self.jenkins_request(req, add_crumb, resolve_auth).text
File "/home/jenkins/agent/workspace/my-jenkins-job/.tox/appdev-ci-staging/lib/python3.9/site-packages/jenkins/__init__.py", line 576, in jenkins_request
self.maybe_add_crumb(req)
File "/home/jenkins/agent/workspace/my-jenkins-job/.tox/appdev-ci-staging/lib/python3.9/site-packages/jenkins/__init__.py", line 373, in maybe_add_crumb
response = self.jenkins_open(requests.Request(
File "/home/jenkins/agent/workspace/my-jenkins-job/.tox/appdev-ci-staging/lib/python3.9/site-packages/jenkins/__init__.py", line 560, in jenkins_open
return self.jenkins_request(req, add_crumb, resolve_auth).text
File "/home/jenkins/agent/workspace/my-jenkins-job/.tox/appdev-ci-staging/lib/python3.9/site-packages/jenkins/__init__.py", line 579, in jenkins_request
self._request(req))
File "/home/jenkins/agent/workspace/my-jenkins-job/.tox/appdev-ci-staging/lib/python3.9/site-packages/jenkins/__init__.py", line 553, in _request
return self._session.send(r, **_settings)
File "/home/jenkins/agent/workspace/my-jenkins-job/.tox/appdev-ci-staging/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 701, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/home/jenkins/agent/workspace/my-jenkins-job/.tox/appdev-ci-staging/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 483, in send
timeout = TimeoutSauce(connect=timeout, read=timeout)
File "/home/jenkins/agent/workspace/my-jenkins-job/.tox/appdev-ci-staging/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/util/timeout.py", line 119, in __init__
self._connect = self._validate_timeout(connect, "connect")
File "/home/jenkins/agent/workspace/my-jenkins-job/.tox/appdev-ci-staging/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/util/timeout.py", line 156, in _validate_timeout
raise ValueError(
ValueError: Timeout value connect was <object object at 0x7efe5adb9aa0>, but it must be an int, float or None.


As nothing had changed on my side in my configuration, it looks like an upstream issue.

I was using requests Python library in my job and requests uses urllib3.

How can we fix this?

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