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gh-97914: [doc] reword misleading sentence on conditional expressions
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Expand Up @@ -1938,8 +1938,9 @@ Conditional expressions
conditional_expression: `or_test` ["if" `or_test` "else" `expression`]
expression: `conditional_expression` | `lambda_expr`

Conditional expressions (sometimes called a "ternary operator") have the lowest
priority of all Python operations.
A conditional expressions (sometimes called a "ternary operator") is an
alternative to the if-else statement. As it is an expression, it returns a value
and can appear as a sub-expression.

The expression ``x if C else y`` first evaluates the condition, *C* rather than *x*.
If *C* is true, *x* is evaluated and its value is returned; otherwise, *y* is
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