bpo-32528: Make asyncio.CancelledError a BaseException. (GH-13528)

This will address the common mistake many asyncio users make:
an "except Exception" clause breaking Tasks cancellation.

In addition to this change, we stop inheriting asyncio.TimeoutError
and asyncio.InvalidStateError from their concurrent.futures.*
counterparts.  There's no point for these exceptions to share the
inheritance chain.

In 3.9 we'll focus on implementing supervisors and cancel scopes,
which should allow better handling of all exceptions, including
SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/asyncio/exceptions.py b/Lib/asyncio/exceptions.py
index cac31a54d2..e03602ef57 100644
--- a/Lib/asyncio/exceptions.py
+++ b/Lib/asyncio/exceptions.py
@@ -5,19 +5,16 @@ __all__ = ('CancelledError', 'InvalidStateError', 'TimeoutError',
            'IncompleteReadError', 'LimitOverrunError',
            'SendfileNotAvailableError')
 
-import concurrent.futures
-from . import base_futures
 
-
-class CancelledError(concurrent.futures.CancelledError):
+class CancelledError(BaseException):
     """The Future or Task was cancelled."""
 
 
-class TimeoutError(concurrent.futures.TimeoutError):
+class TimeoutError(Exception):
     """The operation exceeded the given deadline."""
 
 
-class InvalidStateError(concurrent.futures.InvalidStateError):
+class InvalidStateError(Exception):
     """The operation is not allowed in this state."""