web3.eth.get_transaction raises an exception when the transaction is not found but the documentation says otherwise

[hashtonmartyn]

• Version: 5.30.0
• Python: 3.9
• OS: linux
• pip freeze output

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What was wrong?

web3.eth.get_transaction(hash)
will raise a web3.exceptions.TransactionNotFound error if the transaction for the hash is not found but the documentation says that the function will return None in this case.

How can it be fixed?

Update the documentation to reflect the actual behaviour

[pacrob]

Thanks for letting us know, @hashtonmartyn! I think I got everything updated in PR #2619, let me know if there's anything more.