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  r78760 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-07 16:23:59 +0100 (So, 07 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  #5341: more built-in vs builtin fixes.
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  r78771 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-07 21:58:31 +0100 (So, 07 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  #8085: The function is called PyObject_NewVar, not PyObject_VarNew.
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  r78772 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-07 22:12:28 +0100 (So, 07 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  #8039: document conditional expressions better, giving them their own section.
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  r78773 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-07 22:32:06 +0100 (So, 07 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  #8044: document Py_{Enter,Leave}RecursiveCall functions.
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  r78802 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-08 17:28:40 +0100 (Mo, 08 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Fix typo.
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  r78922 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-13 14:41:58 +0100 (Sa, 13 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Update for new download location.
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  r78952 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-14 10:55:08 +0100 (So, 14 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  #8137: add iso-8859-16 to the standard encodings table.
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2 files changed, 28 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/reference/executionmodel.rst b/Doc/reference/executionmodel.rst
index 90791d2..b4c29b1 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/executionmodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/executionmodel.rst
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ namespace is searched.  The global statement must precede all uses of the name.
 
 .. index:: pair: restricted; execution
 
-The built-in namespace associated with the execution of a code block is actually
+The builtins namespace associated with the execution of a code block is actually
 found by looking up the name ``__builtins__`` in its global namespace; this
 should be a dictionary or a module (in the latter case the module's dictionary
 is used).  By default, when in the :mod:`__main__` module, ``__builtins__`` is
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ weak form of restricted execution.
 .. impl-detail::
 
    Users should not touch ``__builtins__``; it is strictly an implementation
-   detail.  Users wanting to override values in the built-in namespace should
+   detail.  Users wanting to override values in the builtins namespace should
    :keyword:`import` the :mod:`builtins` module and modify its
    attributes appropriately.
 
diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
index d074ebb..d0acd20 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
@@ -1113,12 +1113,7 @@ 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`
@@ -1135,10 +1130,6 @@ 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
@@ -1158,6 +1149,30 @@ 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:
 
@@ -1252,6 +1267,8 @@ groups from right to left).
 +===============================================+=====================================+
 | :keyword:`lambda`                             | Lambda expression                   |
 +-----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
+| :keyword:`if` -- :keyword:`else`              | Conditional expression              |
++-----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
 | :keyword:`or`                                 | Boolean OR                          |
 +-----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
 | :keyword:`and`                                | Boolean AND                         |