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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients Chas Belov, docs@python, mark.dickinson
Date 2020-05-16.08:00:01
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`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.
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