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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.1.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.1.rst index 12c028f..8b1eac9 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.1.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.1.rst @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ The function :func:`g` will always raise a :exc:`NameError` exception, because the binding of the name ``g`` isn't in either its local namespace or in the module-level namespace. This isn't much of a problem in practice (how often do you recursively define interior functions like this?), but this also made using -the :keyword:`lambda` statement clumsier, and this was a problem in practice. +the :keyword:`lambda` expression clumsier, and this was a problem in practice. In code which uses :keyword:`lambda` you can often find local variables being copied by passing them as the default values of arguments. :: @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ The syntax uses a ``from...import`` statement using the reserved module name While it looks like a normal :keyword:`import` statement, it's not; there are strict rules on where such a future statement can be put. They can only be at the top of a module, and must precede any Python code or regular -:keyword:`import` statements. This is because such statements can affect how +:keyword:`!import` statements. This is because such statements can affect how the Python bytecode compiler parses code and generates bytecode, so they must precede any statement that will result in bytecodes being produced. |