From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 20:23:52 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Clarify ValueError's broad applicability (GH-8313) (GH-8316)
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Clarify ValueError's broad applicability (GH-8313) (GH-8316)

(cherry picked from commit feabae961707b00008c15a31352e458f4e8b3a6c)

Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
index fe1465600817..8757c6cb4468 100644
--- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ The following exceptions are the exceptions that are actually raised.
 
 .. 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`.