diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst
index 0eb31117502..808993e18e8 100644
--- a/Doc/glossary.rst
+++ b/Doc/glossary.rst
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ Glossary
       also :term:`immutable`.
 
    named tuple
-      Any tuple subclass whose indexable elements are also accessible using
+      Any tuple-like class whose indexable elements are also accessible using
       named attributes (for example, :func:`time.localtime` returns a
       tuple-like object where the *year* is accessible either with an
       index such as ``t[0]`` or with a named attribute like ``t.tm_year``).
diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
index 871b0cb83a7..6e561992e98 100644
--- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ loops that truncate the stream.
 
       class groupby(object):
           # [k for k, g in groupby('AAAABBBCCDAABBB')] --> A B C D A B
-          # [(list(g)) for k, g in groupby('AAAABBBCCD')] --> AAAA BBB CC D
+          # [list(g) for k, g in groupby('AAAABBBCCD')] --> AAAA BBB CC D
           def __init__(self, iterable, key=None):
               if key is None:
                   key = lambda x: x
@@ -614,8 +614,8 @@ which incur interpreter overhead.
        return imap(function, count(start))
 
    def nth(iterable, n):
-       "Returns the nth item or empty list"
-       return list(islice(iterable, n, n+1))
+       "Returns the nth item or None"
+       return next(islice(iterable, n, None), None)
 
    def quantify(iterable, pred=bool):
        "Count how many times the predicate is true"
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_itertools.py b/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
index a45e608170a..91939e247e2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
@@ -1201,8 +1201,8 @@ Samuele
 ...     return imap(function, count(start))
 
 >>> def nth(iterable, n):
-...     "Returns the nth item or empty list"
-...     return list(islice(iterable, n, n+1))
+...     "Returns the nth item or None"
+...     return next(islice(iterable, n, None), None)
 
 >>> def quantify(iterable, pred=bool):
 ...     "Count how many times the predicate is true"
@@ -1318,7 +1318,10 @@ perform as purported.
 [0, 2, 4, 6]
 
 >>> nth('abcde', 3)
-['d']
+'d'
+
+>>> nth('abcde', 9) is None
+True
 
 >>> quantify(xrange(99), lambda x: x%2==0)
 50