Mod_python error: "PythonHandler laptops"

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mod_python/apache.py", line 299, in HandlerDispatch
    result = object(req)

  File "/var/www/laptops/laptops.py", line 25, in handler
    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("192.168.0.200",port = 80, timeout = 5)

TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'timeout'