bpo-42413: socket.timeout is now an alias of TimeoutError (GH-23413)

Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst
index faf8a76..d52b84f 100755
--- a/Doc/library/socket.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst
@@ -283,6 +283,8 @@ Exceptions
 
 .. exception:: timeout
 
+   A deprecated alias of :exc:`TimeoutError`.
+
    A subclass of :exc:`OSError`, this exception is raised when a timeout
    occurs on a socket which has had timeouts enabled via a prior call to
    :meth:`~socket.settimeout` (or implicitly through
@@ -292,6 +294,9 @@ Exceptions
    .. versionchanged:: 3.3
       This class was made a subclass of :exc:`OSError`.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.10
+      This class was made an alias of :exc:`TimeoutError`.
+
 
 Constants
 ^^^^^^^^^
@@ -1208,7 +1213,7 @@ to sockets.
    address family --- see above.)
 
    If the connection is interrupted by a signal, the method waits until the
-   connection completes, or raise a :exc:`socket.timeout` on timeout, if the
+   connection completes, or raise a :exc:`TimeoutError` on timeout, if the
    signal handler doesn't raise an exception and the socket is blocking or has
    a timeout. For non-blocking sockets, the method raises an
    :exc:`InterruptedError` exception if the connection is interrupted by a