Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:

`pair` isn't a reserved word here; it's just the formal parameter name. Think 
of the lambda here as being equivalent to a function

    def second(pair):
        return pair[1]

You can replace the word "pair" here with any other valid Python identifier, 
and it'll still work the same way.

----------
nosy: +mark.dickinson

_______________________________________
Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org>
<https://bugs.python.org/issue40641>
_______________________________________
_______________________________________________
Python-bugs-list mailing list
Unsubscribe: 
https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com

Reply via email to