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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst index d33dfe8..3f70a94 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst @@ -173,9 +173,10 @@ PEP and implementation written by Ben Hoyt with the help of Victor Stinner. PEP 475: Retry system calls failing with EINTR ---------------------------------------------- -:pep:`475` adds support for automatic retry of system calls failing with EINTR: -this means that user code doesn't have to deal with EINTR or InterruptedError -manually, and should make it more robust against asynchronous signal reception. +:pep:`475` adds support for automatic retry of system calls failing with +:py:data:`~errno.EINTR`: this means that user code doesn't have to deal with +EINTR or :exc:`InterruptedError` manually, and should make it more robust +against asynchronous signal reception. .. seealso:: @@ -614,12 +615,13 @@ that may require changes to your code. Changes in the Python API ------------------------- -* :pep:`475`: the following functions are now retried when interrupted instead - of raising :exc:`InterruptedError` if the signal handler does not raise - an exception: +* :pep:`475`: Examples of functions which are now retried when interrupted + instead of raising :exc:`InterruptedError` if the signal handler does not + raise an exception: - :func:`os.open`, :func:`open` - :func:`os.read`, :func:`os.write` + - :func:`select.select` - :func:`time.sleep` * Before Python 3.5, a :class:`datetime.time` object was considered to be false |