https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/54d5235ed3c44cbc415f3eb8fc4f3b1744de8437
commit: 54d5235ed3c44cbc415f3eb8fc4f3b1744de8437
branch: 3.13
author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]>
committer: Yhg1s <[email protected]>
date: 2025-09-18T12:43:24+01:00
summary:

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

(cherry picked from commit 481588ad4ccd2aff7ca3bac43379da0ce3b1c6d5)

Co-authored-by: Kian Eliasi <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst

diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
index 62c14676af92e5..165436eaa327b4 100644
--- 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
 

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