From 9ef8caf293b6a54f73fb66e3eca653783b3e0f28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 01:22:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [3.12] GH-104232: Fix statement about trace return values
 (GH-111047)

(cherry picked from commit d9246c7b734b8958da03494045208681d95f5b74)
---
 Doc/library/sys.rst | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst
index 6fb4c0f1c538..3782d1e6c6f2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sys.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst
@@ -1552,9 +1552,8 @@ always available.
    function to be used for the new scope, or ``None`` if the scope shouldn't be
    traced.
 
-   The local trace function should return a reference to itself (or to another
-   function for further tracing in that scope), or ``None`` to turn off tracing
-   in that scope.
+   The local trace function should return a reference to itself, or to another
+   function which would then be used as the local trace function for the scope.
 
    If there is any error occurred in the trace function, it will be unset, just
    like ``settrace(None)`` is called.
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2.47.3