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authorPhil Jones <philip.graham.jones@googlemail.com>2019-10-12 17:46:13 +0000
committerYury Selivanov <yury@magic.io>2019-10-12 13:46:13 -0400
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Announce the change in the CancelledError inheritance (GH-16730)
This is a fairly noticeable change that requires adjustments in existing asyncio code. It should therefore be announced.
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@@ -1659,6 +1659,10 @@ Changes in the Python API
environment variable and does not use :envvar:`HOME`, which is not normally
set for regular user accounts.
+* The Exception :class:`asyncio.CancelledError` now inherits from
+ :class:`BaseException` rather than a :class:`Exception`.
+ (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`13528`.)
+
.. _bpo-36085-whatsnew:
* DLL dependencies for extension modules and DLLs loaded with :mod:`ctypes` on