for anyone wondering if this fixes an issue they are seeing,
it just so happened i was debugging an issue today that turned out to be caused by this.

the symptom was that the influx client was opening the connection (syn), the server would reply (syn, ack) and than the client sends tcp reset. I was seeing this in my graphite-influxdb adapter.
upon a simple query like "list series",
requests/adapters.py's send() would catch a MaxRetryError and yields the ConnectionError

HTTPConnectionPool(host='graphite', port=8086): Max retries exceeded with url: 
                     /db/graphite/series?q=list+series&p=graphite&chunked=false&time_precision=s&u=graphite (Caused by <class 'socket.error'>: [Errno 115] Operation now in progress)",)

I thought maybe it was due to thread unsafety of my code, but turns out that InfluxDBClient::request() was throwing the exception, and this timeout fixes it

Please push a new version to pypi soon, this bug was causing me quite some issues (I've now simply patched it manually in my local version).

Done. 0.1.11 is pushed