[3.11] Clarify state of CancelledError in doc (GH-106453) (#106456)

miss-islington · kristjanvalur · web-flow · commit ada22db1478f · 2023-07-05T11:16:56.000-07:00
Clarify state of CancelledError in doc (GH-106453) This change makes it explicit that asyncio.CancelledError is not a subclass of Exception. (cherry picked from commit 12a9813) Co-authored-by: Kristján Valur Jónsson <sweskman@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-exceptions.rst
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Exceptions
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.8
 
-      :exc:`CancelledError` is now a subclass of :class:`BaseException`.
+      :exc:`CancelledError` is now a subclass of :class:`BaseException` rather than :class:`Exception`.
 
 
 .. exception:: InvalidStateError
