diff --git a/docs/topics/db/sql.txt b/docs/topics/db/sql.txt
index 1433fa52a1..b909be938e 100644
--- a/docs/topics/db/sql.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/db/sql.txt
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ write::
     >>> first_person = Person.objects.raw('SELECT * from myapp_person')[0]
 
 However, the indexing and slicing are not performed at the database level. If
-you have a big amount of ``Person`` objects in your database, it would be more
+you have a big amount of ``Person`` objects in your database, it is more
 efficient to limit the query at the SQL level::
 
     >>> first_person = Person.objects.raw('SELECT * from myapp_person LIMIT 1')[0]
diff --git a/tests/modeltests/raw_query/tests.py b/tests/modeltests/raw_query/tests.py
index dbc5f88bb9..ceed67473f 100644
--- a/tests/modeltests/raw_query/tests.py
+++ b/tests/modeltests/raw_query/tests.py
@@ -196,8 +196,4 @@ class RawQueryTests(TestCase):
         first_two = Author.objects.raw(query)[0:2]
         self.assertEquals(len(first_two), 2)
 
-        try:
-            Author.objects.raw(query)['test']
-            self.fail('Index lookups should only accept int, long or slice')
-        except TypeError:
-            pass
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, lambda: Author.objects.raw(query)['test'])