The current documentation says it returns None if the name is not found, but (GH...

the implementation uses [] and will raise KeyError instead.

Noticed by @srittau in python/typeshed@5659.

diff --git a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst
index bb8e2d88c0fc95342eece8ce9344e2bb622bece1..2de55d86c38f487ebefa37d45855506ca1004f59 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ identifier.  Python currently uses eight paths:
    If *expand* is set to ``False``, the path will not be expanded using the
    variables.
 
-   If *name* is not found, return ``None``.
+   If *name* is not found, raise a :exc:`KeyError`.
 
 
 .. function:: get_paths([scheme, [vars, [expand]]])

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-18-06-44-45.bpo-44453.3PIkj2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-18-06-44-45.bpo-44453.3PIkj2.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..fd72cf5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-18-06-44-45.bpo-44453.3PIkj2.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix documentation for the return type of :func:`sysconfig.get_path`.