Doesn't use the built-in TimeoutError

[terrdavis]

Why don't you use the built-in exception?

[majiang]

The reason I think is that built-in TimeoutError is "Raised when a system function timed out at the system level.

Besides, using the same name TimeoutError seems error-prone (that's why I searched the issues for the name and found this one).

[bfontaine]

It might be a good solution to use something like class TimeoutDecoratorError(TimeoutError): a class with a different name that inherits from the built-in exception.

[majiang]

If you inherited you would say "a TimeoutDeoratorError is a TimeoutError" which is system level by built-in definition. We should rather just rename the TimeoutError to a non-confusing alternative.

[bfontaine]

That’s true. requests uses Timeout to avoid the confusion with the built-in TimeoutError.