the documentation for requests.request says this:

• timeout (float or tuple) – (optional) How many seconds to wait for the server to send data before giving up, as a float, or a (connect timeout, read timeout) tuple.

however the documentation for the same argument in Session.request does not clarify that it uses seconds:

• timeout (float or tuple) – (optional) How long to wait for the server to send data before giving up, as a float, or a (connect timeout, read timeout) tuple.