Skip to content

gh-102810 Add docstrings to the public facing methods of the Timeout class #102811

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
12 changes: 12 additions & 0 deletions Lib/asyncio/timeouts.py
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -25,18 +25,30 @@ class _State(enum.Enum):

@final
class Timeout:
"""Asynchronous context manager for cancelling overdue coroutines.

Use `timeout()` or `timeout_at()` rather than instantiating this class directly.
"""

def __init__(self, when: Optional[float]) -> None:
"""Schedule a timeout that will trigger at a given loop time.

- If `when` is `None`, the timeout will never trigger.
- If `when < loop.time()`, the timeout will trigger on the next
iteration of the event loop.
"""
self._state = _State.CREATED

self._timeout_handler: Optional[events.TimerHandle] = None
self._task: Optional[tasks.Task] = None
self._when = when

def when(self) -> Optional[float]:
"""Return the current deadline."""
return self._when

def reschedule(self, when: Optional[float]) -> None:
"""Reschedule the timeout."""
assert self._state is not _State.CREATED
if self._state is not _State.ENTERED:
raise RuntimeError(
Expand Down