asyncio: Remove asyncio.timeout() context manager.

It will probably be added back in Python 3.6, once its compatibility
issues are resolved; see [1] for more details.

[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/async-sig/2016-June/000045.html

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
index a1b69c8..de6ee58 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
@@ -662,22 +662,6 @@ Task functions
        except CancelledError:
            res = None
 
-.. function:: timeout(timeout, \*, loop=None)
-
-   Return a context manager that cancels a block on *timeout* expiring::
-
-       with timeout(1.5):
-           yield from inner()
-
-   1. If ``inner()`` is executed faster than in ``1.5`` seconds
-      nothing happens.
-   2. Otherwise ``inner()`` is cancelled internally but
-      :exc:`asyncio.TimeoutError` is raised outside of
-      context manager scope.
-
-   Passing ``None`` as *timeout* argument disables the manager logic.
-
-   .. versionadded:: 3.5.2
 
 .. coroutinefunction:: wait(futures, \*, loop=None, timeout=None,\
                             return_when=ALL_COMPLETED)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
index e3e73e4..83d5ce6 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
@@ -835,10 +835,6 @@ Updates in 3.5.2:
   method to get the current exception handler.
   (Contributed by Yury Selivanov.)
 
-* New :func:`~asyncio.timeout` context manager to simplify timeouts
-  handling code.
-  (Contributed by Andrew Svetlov.)
-
 * New :meth:`StreamReader.readuntil() <asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil>`
   method to read data from the stream until a separator bytes
   sequence appears.