Can't make timeout work

[tamis-laan]

I'm doing a request with httpx that returns:
httpx.ConnectTimeout
I waits 20 seconds for this. And I want to make it shorter, i.e. 2 seconds for example so I do:

httpx.AsyncClient(timeout = httpx.Timeout(2.0, connect=2.0))

But still it takes 20 seconds, am I doing something wrong here?