Add a typed exception for concurrent.futures executor shutdown

Proposal:

concurrent.futures.Executor.submit() implementations currently raise a generic RuntimeError when work is submitted after executor shutdown. For example, ThreadPoolExecutor.submit() raises one of these messages:

RuntimeError("cannot schedule new futures after shutdown")
RuntimeError("cannot schedule new futures after interpreter shutdown")

This makes it difficult for callers to distinguish expected executor lifecycle failures from unrelated RuntimeErrors without matching exception message strings:

try:
    future = executor.submit(fn)
except RuntimeError as exc:
    if str(exc) in {
        "cannot schedule new futures after shutdown",
        "cannot schedule new futures after interpreter shutdown",
    }:
        handle_executor_shutdown(exc)
    else:
        raise

It would be useful to expose a typed exception for this condition, for example:

class ExecutorShutdownError(RuntimeError):
    pass

Then executor implementations could raise ExecutorShutdownError for explicit shutdown and interpreter-shutdown submission failures. Because it would subclass RuntimeError, existing callers catching RuntimeError would remain compatible, while callers that need precise handling could avoid brittle string matching:

try:
    future = executor.submit(fn)
except concurrent.futures.ExecutorShutdownError:
    handle_executor_shutdown()

This would mirror the existing benefit of typed executor failures such as BrokenExecutor, where callers can distinguish executor state from arbitrary runtime failures without inspecting exception text.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

None. I searched existing CPython issues for ExecutorShutdownError, cannot schedule new futures after shutdown, cannot schedule new futures after interpreter shutdown, and related concurrent.futures RuntimeError shutdown exception type wording. I found issues about shutdown behavior itself, but not this typed-exception API request.

Linked PRs

• gh-153003

Commencez par lire les implémentations de concurrent.futures.Executor.submit() et l’API BrokenExecutor existante. Examinez la PR liée gh-153003 et les tests associés ; le travail est terminé lorsque les soumissions pendant l’arrêt exposent une exception dédiée, tout en préservant la compatibilité avec RuntimeError et en couvrant les cas d’arrêt explicite et d’arrêt de l’interpréteur.