[Python-checkins] gh-85757: Change wording from nested to inner (GH-91811)

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Sat Apr 30 18:12:43 EDT 2022


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/efb87b1090a21e1be8f5f4928349eb742fd17f4c
commit: efb87b1090a21e1be8f5f4928349eb742fd17f4c
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author: slateny <46876382+slateny at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-04-30T15:12:33-07:00
summary:

gh-85757: Change wording from nested to inner (GH-91811)



#85757

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#nested-list-comprehensions

I do think this is clearer, but I wonder if 'nested' should be kept though to get the terminology out there more often. So perhaps it could be something like 'inner (nested) listcomp' or 'nested (inner) listcomp' despite sounding a bit redundant

Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:rhettinger

files:
M Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst

diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
index 927a6722ca251..f847ee325e0d7 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ The following list comprehension will transpose rows and columns::
    >>> [[row[i] for row in matrix] for i in range(4)]
    [[1, 5, 9], [2, 6, 10], [3, 7, 11], [4, 8, 12]]
 
-As we saw in the previous section, the nested listcomp is evaluated in
+As we saw in the previous section, the inner list comprehension is evaluated in
 the context of the :keyword:`for` that follows it, so this example is
 equivalent to::
 



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