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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2018-07-17 20:24:27 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>2018-07-17 20:24:27 (GMT)
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Clarify ValueError's broad applicability (GH-8313) (GH-8317)
(cherry picked from commit feabae961707b00008c15a31352e458f4e8b3a6c) Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ 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`.