Clarify ValueError's broad applicability (GH-8313) (GH-8315)
(cherry picked from commit feabae961707b00008c15a31352e458f4e8b3a6c)
Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
index 42b99cc..e33b886 100644
--- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@
.. 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`.