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From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 12:35:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] The current documentation says it returns None if the name is
 not found, but (GH-26785) (GH-27372)

the implementation uses [] and will raise KeyError instead.

Noticed by @srittau in python/typeshed@5659.
(cherry picked from commit f22737abfa07605f4ed1a99cfa97a26520b6c5c2)

Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
---
 Doc/library/sysconfig.rst                                       | 2 +-
 .../next/Documentation/2021-06-18-06-44-45.bpo-44453.3PIkj2.rst | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-18-06-44-45.bpo-44453.3PIkj2.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst
index c9306e9bf9de16..641abf436b9629 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ identifier.  Python currently uses eight paths:
    If *expand* is set to ``False``, the path will not be expanded using the
    variables.
 
-   If *name* is not found, return ``None``.
+   If *name* is not found, raise a :exc:`KeyError`.
 
 
 .. function:: get_paths([scheme, [vars, [expand]]])
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-18-06-44-45.bpo-44453.3PIkj2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-18-06-44-45.bpo-44453.3PIkj2.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..fd72cf525c32fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-18-06-44-45.bpo-44453.3PIkj2.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix documentation for the return type of :func:`sysconfig.get_path`.