From a9c2801d49de545f6a5bfee46969dc9e20261461 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 04:53:15 +0100 Subject: [3.11] gh-114648: Add IndexError exception to tutorial datastructures list.pop entry (GH-114681) (#114842) Remove redundant explanation of optional argument. (cherry picked from commit 57c3e775df5a5ca0982adf15010ed80a158b1b80) Co-authored-by: srinivasan --- Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst index 87614d0..de28274 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst @@ -48,10 +48,9 @@ objects: :noindex: Remove the item at the given position in the list, and return it. If no index - is specified, ``a.pop()`` removes and returns the last item in the list. (The - square brackets around the *i* in the method signature denote that the parameter - is optional, not that you should type square brackets at that position. You - will see this notation frequently in the Python Library Reference.) + is specified, ``a.pop()`` removes and returns the last item in the list. + It raises an :exc:`IndexError` if the list is empty or the index is + outside the list range. .. method:: list.clear() -- cgit v0.12