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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.
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@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ generators:
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raise an exception inside the generator; the exception is raised by the
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``yield`` expression where the generator's execution is paused.
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* :meth:`~generator.close` raises a :exc:`GeneratorExit` exception inside the
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* :meth:`~generator.close` sends a :exc:`GeneratorExit` exception to the
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generator to terminate the iteration. On receiving this exception, the
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generator's code must either raise :exc:`GeneratorExit` or
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:exc:`StopIteration`; catching the exception and doing anything else is
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@ -625,8 +625,10 @@ is already executing raises a :exc:`ValueError` exception.
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.. method:: generator.close()
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Raises a :exc:`GeneratorExit` at the point where the generator function was
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paused. If the generator function catches the exception and returns a
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Raises a :exc:`GeneratorExit` exception at the point where the generator
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function was paused (equivalent to calling ``throw(GeneratorExit)``).
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The exception is raised by the yield expression where the generator was paused.
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If the generator function catches the exception and returns a
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value, this value is returned from :meth:`close`. If the generator function
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is already closed, or raises :exc:`GeneratorExit` (by not catching the
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exception), :meth:`close` returns :const:`None`. If the generator yields a
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