It should be mentioned in the documentation that 

A StopIteration exception raised in the body of a while loop will terminate (and is caught by) the while-loop, thus leading to graceful termination.

A good place would be here:
1) https://docs.python.org/3/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-while-statement

I don't know how such a StopIteration termination of a while loop
affects the else-clause. This should be clarified.

Here:
2) https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#StopIteration
it would be good to explicitly state:

An enclosing while-loop or for-loop acts like an implicit catch for StopIteration. The StopIteration exception will terminate the loop.

(I guess, a for-loop is also just terminated when the StopIteration originates in the BODY of the loop, although this is not the typical case.)

>>> while True:
...     raise StopIteration
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
StopIteration

Sorry, that was my misinterpretation of what happened.
I had been stumbling over an old program I had written, but
apparently it works because the while-loop is inside
a generator function, and the StopIteration is simply
passed on.

Here is a small demonstration example:
>>> def f():
...   for x in range(5):
...     yield x
... 
>>> def g():
...   h=f()
...   while True:
...      yield next(h)+100
...      yield next(h)
... 
>>> list(g())
[100, 1, 102, 3, 104]

(I am beginning to wonder whether this program will be adversely affected by PEP 479 -- Change StopIteration handling inside generators.)