[Python-checkins] bpo-36651: Fixed Asyncio Event Loop documentation inconsistency (GH-12866)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d29b3dd9227cfc4a23f77e99d62e20e063272de1
commit: d29b3dd9227cfc4a23f77e99d62e20e063272de1
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2019-04-18T05:49:24-07:00
summary:

bpo-36651: Fixed Asyncio Event Loop documentation inconsistency (GH-12866)


GH- [bpo-36651](https://bugs.python.org/issue36651): Fixed Asyncio Event Loop documentation inconsistency

In the documentation for the call_later and the call_at methods there is a note which says that the delay cannot be longer than a day, but both methods have a note saying that this limitation was removed in Python 3.8
Here I fixed this issue by removing the pre-exising note and added a versionchanged.

To test my changes I have rebuilt the documentation with ```make html```. I did not have any errors and the effected page displayed correctly on a browser.

https://bugs.python.org/issue36651
(cherry picked from commit 7e954e7de4f3777b5ce239640bd2b76aced09561)

Co-authored-by: Enrico Alarico Carbognani <enrico.carbognani at gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
index d59cf055b614..b9a8b8941a46 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
@@ -281,9 +281,9 @@ clocks to track time.
    the event loop's internal monotonic clock.
 
 .. note::
-
-   Timeouts (relative *delay* or absolute *when*) should not
-   exceed one day.
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.8
+      In Python 3.7 and earlier timeouts (relative *delay* or absolute *when*)
+      should not exceed one day.  This has been fixed in Python 3.8.
 
 .. seealso::
 



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