From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:54:37 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [3.14] gh-138871: Clarify NameError exception in 'del' (GH-138881) (#138903) X-Git-Tag: v3.14.0rc3~17 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5ddd72afd8c6b47b0ad5b46e8c2bb305184aed25;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [3.14] gh-138871: Clarify NameError exception in 'del' (GH-138881) (#138903) Co-authored-by: Kian Eliasi --- diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst index e8cfc8d8403b..d674804df8f8 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst @@ -465,8 +465,8 @@ 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