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diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst index 271a5c8219..bddd0edc6c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst @@ -536,7 +536,12 @@ depending on the system error code. .. exception:: InterruptedError Raised when a system call is interrupted by an incoming signal. - Corresponds to :c:data:`errno` ``EINTR``. + Corresponds to :c:data:`errno` :py:data:`~errno.EINTR`. + + .. versionchanged:: 3.5 + Python now retries system calls when a syscall is interrupted by a + signal, except if the signal handler raises an exception (see :pep:`475` + for the rationale), instead of raising :exc:`InterruptedError`. .. exception:: IsADirectoryError |