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 42b99cc47e05f19cfc928703d1c2fa43a8666995..e33b88673f75335f819794ebe2732ccbda3ea0d6 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ The following exceptions are the exceptions that are usually 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`.