commit 1fb24b6e8395a70f7b6daf7af40065ab8177b8c4
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Tue Jul 17 13:23:52 2018 -0700
committer Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com> Tue Jul 17 13:23:52 2018 -0700
tree 03aa2038f278421823ae5ec2ecde8f46c0e9135b
parent fc153d127901361d7fe5f60caa6f41d2b8db0eb0

Clarify ValueError's broad applicability (GH-8313) (GH-8316)

(cherry picked from commit feabae961707b00008c15a31352e458f4e8b3a6c)

Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>

Doc/library/exceptions.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
index fe14656..8757c6c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@
 
 .. exception:: ValueError
 
-   Raised when a built-in operation or function receives an argument that has the
+   Raised when an operation or function receives an argument that has the
    right type but an inappropriate value, and the situation is not described by a
    more precise exception such as :exc:`IndexError`.