https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/54d5235ed3c44cbc415f3eb8fc4f3b1744de8437 commit: 54d5235ed3c44cbc415f3eb8fc4f3b1744de8437 branch: 3.13 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: Yhg1s <[email protected]> date: 2025-09-18T12:43:24+01:00 summary:
[3.13] gh-138871: Clarify NameError exception in 'del' (GH-138881) (#138904) (cherry picked from commit 481588ad4ccd2aff7ca3bac43379da0ce3b1c6d5) Co-authored-by: Kian Eliasi <[email protected]> files: M Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst index 62c14676af92e5..165436eaa327b4 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst @@ -463,8 +463,8 @@ Deletion of a target list recursively deletes each target, from left to right. Deletion of a name removes the binding of that name from the local or global namespace, depending on whether the name occurs in a :keyword:`global` statement -in the same code block. If the name is unbound, a :exc:`NameError` exception -will be raised. +in the same code block. Trying to delete an unbound name raises a +:exc:`NameError` exception. .. index:: pair: attribute; deletion _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
