[3.14] gh-135110: Fix misleading generator.close() documentation (GH-135152) (GH-135985)

miss-islington · cdenihan · web-flow · commit ad6c90f5ba2f · 2025-06-26T13:34:33.000Z
gh-135110: Fix misleading `generator.close()` documentation (GH-135152) The documentation incorrectly stated that generator.close() 'raises' a GeneratorExit exception. This was misleading because the method doesn't raise the exception to the caller - it sends the exception internally to the generator and returns None. (cherry picked from commit 0d76dcc) Co-authored-by: Connor Denihan <188690869+cdenihan@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/howto/functional.rst b/Doc/howto/functional.rst
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ generators:
   raise an exception inside the generator; the exception is raised by the
   ``yield`` expression where the generator's execution is paused.
 
-* :meth:`~generator.close` raises a :exc:`GeneratorExit` exception inside the
+* :meth:`~generator.close` sends a :exc:`GeneratorExit` exception to the
   generator to terminate the iteration.  On receiving this exception, the
   generator's code must either raise :exc:`GeneratorExit` or
   :exc:`StopIteration`; catching the exception and doing anything else is
diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
@@ -625,8 +625,10 @@ is already executing raises a :exc:`ValueError` exception.
 
 .. method:: generator.close()
 
-   Raises a :exc:`GeneratorExit` at the point where the generator function was
-   paused.  If the generator function catches the exception and returns a
+   Raises a :exc:`GeneratorExit` exception at the point where the generator
+   function was paused (equivalent to calling ``throw(GeneratorExit)``).
+   The exception is raised by the yield expression where the generator was paused.
+   If the generator function catches the exception and returns a
    value, this value is returned from :meth:`close`.  If the generator function
    is already closed, or raises :exc:`GeneratorExit` (by not catching the
    exception), :meth:`close` returns :const:`None`.  If the generator yields a
