[New-bugs-announce] [issue21376] asyncio docs refer to wrong TimeoutError

[Philip Sequeira]

New submission from Philip Sequeira:

Example: https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/asyncio-task.html
TimeoutError is mentioned several times, and links to the OSError subclass. However, the actual TimeoutError raised by asyncio stuff is the one from concurrent.futures, which is not compatible. The docs as they are seem to suggest that something like "except TimeoutError" would be appropriate, when in fact that would not produce the expected behavior; "except asyncio.TimeoutError" is what you'd want.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 217390
nosy: docs at python, qmega
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: asyncio docs refer to wrong TimeoutError
versions: Python 3.4, Python 3.5

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