https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c1c9ad1d5a62a591eb2f0f0d29f3fa02e0949f14
commit: c1c9ad1d5a62a591eb2f0f0d29f3fa02e0949f14
branch: main
author: Oleg Burnaev <51371645+shepard2...@users.noreply.github.com>
committer: picnixz <10796600+picn...@users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2025-05-17T09:59:37+02:00
summary:
gh-133881: add forward reference to `list.sort()` in lambda expression tutorial
(#133910)
files:
M Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
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--- a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
@@ -999,7 +999,8 @@ scope::
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The above example uses a lambda expression to return a function. Another use
-is to pass a small function as an argument::
+is to pass a small function as an argument. For instance, :meth:`list.sort`
+takes a sorting key function *key* which can be a lambda function::
>>> pairs = [(1, 'one'), (2, 'two'), (3, 'three'), (4, 'four')]
>>> pairs.sort(key=lambda pair: pair[1])
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