Docs: improve the accuracy of the sqlite3.connect() timeout param (GH-102900)

miss-islington · erlend-aasland · CAM-Gerlach · web-flow · commit 9a1453b6511f · 2023-03-22T04:49:46.000-07:00
(cherry picked from commit c24f1f1) Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com> Co-authored-by: C.A.M. Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM>
diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
@@ -271,9 +271,9 @@ Module functions
 
    :param float timeout:
        How many seconds the connection should wait before raising
-       an exception, if the database is locked by another connection.
-       If another connection opens a transaction to modify the database,
-       it will be locked until that transaction is committed.
+       an :exc:`OperationalError` when a table is locked.
+       If another connection opens a transaction to modify a table,
+       that table will be locked until the transaction is committed.
        Default five seconds.
 
    :param int detect_types:
