[3.13] gh-138871: Clarify NameError exception in 'del' (GH-138881) (#138904)

(cherry picked from commit 481588ad4ccd2aff7ca3bac43379da0ce3b1c6d5)

Co-authored-by: Kian Eliasi <kian.elbo@gmail.com>

diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
index 62c14676af92e50b963006fcc2816804ead0048a..165436eaa327b439d6fbd121150cb678d57ecada 100644 (file)
--- 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