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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2013-10-06 08:28:39 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2013-10-06 08:28:39 (GMT) |
| commit | 242e6a0bce9143c62262817b17b46d32a3c916a3 (patch) | |
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Use "lambda expression" as preferred to "lambda form".
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst index c0132bd..87a6d2e 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst @@ -1218,8 +1218,8 @@ Conditional expressions .. productionlist:: conditional_expression: `or_test` ["if" `or_test` "else" `expression`] - expression: `conditional_expression` | `lambda_form` - expression_nocond: `or_test` | `lambda_form_nocond` + expression: `conditional_expression` | `lambda_expr` + expression_nocond: `or_test` | `lambda_expr_nocond` Conditional expressions (sometimes called a "ternary operator") have the lowest priority of all Python operations. @@ -1243,10 +1243,10 @@ Lambdas pair: anonymous; function .. productionlist:: - lambda_form: "lambda" [`parameter_list`]: `expression` - lambda_form_nocond: "lambda" [`parameter_list`]: `expression_nocond` + lambda_expr: "lambda" [`parameter_list`]: `expression` + lambda_expr_nocond: "lambda" [`parameter_list`]: `expression_nocond` -Lambda forms (lambda expressions) have the same syntactic position as +Lambda expressions (sometimes called lambda forms) have the same syntactic position as expressions. They are a shorthand to create anonymous functions; the expression ``lambda arguments: expression`` yields a function object. The unnamed object behaves like a function object defined with :: @@ -1255,7 +1255,8 @@ behaves like a function object defined with :: return expression See section :ref:`function` for the syntax of parameter lists. Note that -functions created with lambda forms cannot contain statements or annotations. +functions created with lambda expressions cannot contain statements or +annotations. .. _exprlists: |