From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 03:29:42 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: SF patch #760257: add socket.timeout exception
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~270
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=643bcecad03004e83ecfc3560bf85ceb628280ab;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

SF patch #760257: add socket.timeout exception
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 08ca40ffa321..936778817b17 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ Core and builtins
 Extension modules
 -----------------
 
+- the socket module has a new exception, socket.timeout, to allow
+  timeouts to be handled separately from other socket errors.
+
 - mimetools.choose_boundary() could return duplicate strings at times,
   especially likely on Windows.  The strings returned are now guaranteed
   unique within a single program run.