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diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
index c7dd3fc..c71e89e 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
@@ -1120,12 +1120,7 @@ Boolean operations
    pair: Conditional; expression
    pair: Boolean; operation
 
-Boolean operations have the lowest priority of all Python operations:
-
 .. productionlist::
-   expression: `conditional_expression` | `lambda_form`
-   expression_nocond: `or_test` | `lambda_form_nocond`
-   conditional_expression: `or_test` ["if" `or_test` "else" `expression`]
    or_test: `and_test` | `or_test` "or" `and_test`
    and_test: `not_test` | `and_test` "and" `not_test`
    not_test: `comparison` | "not" `not_test`
@@ -1142,10 +1137,6 @@ truth value by providing a :meth:`__bool__` method.
 The operator :keyword:`not` yields ``True`` if its argument is false, ``False``
 otherwise.
 
-The expression ``x if C else y`` first evaluates *C* (*not* *x*); if *C* is
-true, *x* is evaluated and its value is returned; otherwise, *y* is evaluated
-and its value is returned.
-
 .. index:: operator: and
 
 The expression ``x and y`` first evaluates *x*; if *x* is false, its value is
@@ -1165,6 +1156,30 @@ not bother to return a value of the same type as its argument, so e.g., ``not
 'foo'`` yields ``False``, not ``''``.)
 
 
+Conditional Expressions
+=======================
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.5
+
+.. index::
+   pair: conditional; expression
+   pair: ternary; operator
+
+.. productionlist::
+   conditional_expression: `or_test` ["if" `or_test` "else" `expression`]
+   expression: `conditional_expression` | `lambda_form`
+   expression_nocond: `or_test` | `lambda_form_nocond`
+
+Conditional expressions (sometimes called a "ternary operator") have the lowest
+priority of all Python operations.
+
+The expression ``x if C else y`` first evaluates the condition, *C* (*not* *x*);
+if *C* is true, *x* is evaluated and its value is returned; otherwise, *y* is
+evaluated and its value is returned.
+
+See :pep:`308` for more details about conditional expressions.
+
+
 .. _lambdas:
 .. _lambda:
 
@@ -1259,6 +1274,8 @@ groups from right to left).
 +===============================================+=====================================+
 | :keyword:`lambda`                             | Lambda expression                   |
 +-----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
+| :keyword:`if` -- :keyword:`else`              | Conditional expression              |
++-----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
 | :keyword:`or`                                 | Boolean OR                          |
 +-----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
 | :keyword:`and`                                | Boolean AND                         |