Python gevent terrible failure mode under Windows

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What do you think of the following innocuous Python code ?

from gevent import monkey
monkey.patch_all(thread=False, select=False)
import requests

requests.get('http://i-do-not-exist.com')
print('THIS WILL NEVER BE PRINTED !!!')

Guess what ? The string message will never get printed :(

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Simply remove the monkey.patch_all line and you'll get a pretty socket.gaierror: [Errno 8] Name or service not known.

I tested this with gevent==1.2.1 and Windows 10, with the gevent & greenlet packages built from source by pip install.

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