Meaning of a vertical bar in differentiation

I am reading this article A Gentle Introduction to torch.autograd — PyTorch Tutorials 2.2.0+cu121 documentation

Could you help what this vertical bar means?

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This notation is used to denote the value of the partial differentiation of o with xi at the value xi = 1.
So, in the equation do/dxi = 3(xi + 2)/2, replace xi = 1, you’ll get 9/2.

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