https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/075cabb02650e786008e45b632816c6a723801b0
commit: 075cabb02650e786008e45b632816c6a723801b0
branch: 3.14
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committer: picnixz <10796600+picn...@users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2025-05-17T08:05:47Z
summary:

[3.14] gh-133881: add forward reference to `list.sort()` in lambda expression 
tutorial (GH-133910) (#134126)

gh-133881: add forward reference to `list.sort()` in lambda expression tutorial 
(GH-133910)
(cherry picked from commit c1c9ad1d5a62a591eb2f0f0d29f3fa02e0949f14)

Co-authored-by: Oleg Burnaev <51371645+shepard2...@users.noreply.github.com>

files:
M Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst

diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
index 95939242fb7d44..9a810f16388b9d 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
@@ -999,7 +999,8 @@ scope::
    43
 
 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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