DynamoDB.Table.get_item behavior incorrectly specified when no item with the given key is present

[SamStephens]

Describe the issue

The documentation for this method says

The GetItem operation returns a set of attributes for the item with the given primary key. If there is no matching item, GetItem does not return any data and there will be no Item element in the response.

However, I have just tried get_item with a key that is not present, and I did not get a response with no Item element. Instead the error

botocore.errorfactory.ResourceNotFoundException: An error occurred (ResourceNotFoundException) when calling the GetItem operation: Requested resource not found

Was thrown.

I suspect the documentation I'm quoting is describing how the API behaves, and that boto3 has some behavior in front of that to throw a ResourceNotFoundException that the documentation should instead reflect.

Links

https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/services/dynamodb/table/get_item.html

[SamStephens]

This is my bad, the resource being referred to is the table, not the item.

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