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Subject: [3.13] Docs: avoid informal formulation in `Doc/c-api/conversion.rst` (GH-140898... 
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[3.13] Docs: avoid informal formulation in `Doc/c-api/conversion.rst` (GH-140898) (#140913)

Docs: avoid informal formulation in `Doc/c-api/conversion.rst` (GH-140898)
(cherry picked from commit 173cc53d9fdc596d7a19102fa407c829f9c71516)

Co-authored-by: RayXu <140802139+F18-Maverick@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/conversion.rst b/Doc/c-api/conversion.rst
index 4aaf3905e81c..869ab7079a1b 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/conversion.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/conversion.rst
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ The return value (*rv*) for these functions should be interpreted as follows:
   ``rv + 1`` bytes would have been needed to succeed. ``str[size-1]`` is ``'\0'``
   in this case.
 
-* When ``rv < 0``, "something bad happened." ``str[size-1]`` is ``'\0'`` in
+* When ``rv < 0``, the output conversion failed and ``str[size-1]`` is ``'\0'`` in
   this case too, but the rest of *str* is undefined. The exact cause of the error
   depends on the underlying platform.