Can the explanation of socket.connect() connection failures be rephrased? I don't think anybody understands what's written.
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The documentation for the socket.connect() method has a tortured sentence that is very hard to understand. It's especially intractable for non-native English speakers. Can it be simplified?
The sentence is this:
If the connection is interrupted by a signal, the method waits until the connection completes, or raise a [TimeoutError](https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#TimeoutError) on timeout, if the signal handler doesn’t raise an exception and the socket is blocking or has a timeout.
Can this be rephrased as two simpler sentences? I'm happy to propose that rewrite if somebody could add a comment here explaining what this sentence actually means. thx
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Start with the socket.connect() documentation entry and read the surrounding discussion of interrupted connections, signal handlers, blocking sockets, timeouts, and TimeoutError. Confirm the sentence's meaning before proposing two simpler sentences that preserve all of those conditions. Done means the explanation is accurate, clearer for non-native English speakers, and reflected in the linked documentation.
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