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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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