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diff --git a/Doc/howto/functional.rst b/Doc/howto/functional.rst index 9c1003d..21272fa 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/functional.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/functional.rst @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ disclaimer.) In this document, we'll take a tour of Python's features suitable for implementing programs in a functional style. After an introduction to the concepts of functional programming, we'll look at language features such as -iterators and generators and relevant library modules such as :mod:`itertools` -and :mod:`functools`. +:term:`iterator`\s and :term:`generator`\s and relevant library modules such as +:mod:`itertools` and :mod:`functools`. Introduction @@ -448,8 +448,8 @@ Here's the simplest example of a generator function:: yield i Any function containing a ``yield`` keyword is a generator function; this is -detected by Python's bytecode compiler which compiles the function specially as -a result. +detected by Python's :term:`bytecode` compiler which compiles the function +specially as a result. When you call a generator function, it doesn't return a single value; instead it returns a generator object that supports the iterator protocol. On executing |