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- persistent:
- Pertaining to a program that runs indefinitely and keeps at least some of its data in permanent storage.
- format operator:
- An operator,
%, that takes a format string and a tuple and generates a string that includes the elements of the tuple formatted as specified by the format string.
- format string:
- A string, used with the format operator, that contains format sequences.
- format sequence:
- A sequence of characters in a format string, like
%d, that specifies how a value should be formatted.
- text file:
- A sequence of characters stored in permanent storage like a hard drive.
- directory:
- A named collection of files, also called a folder.
- path:
- A string that identifies a file.
- relative path:
- A path that starts from the current directory.
- absolute path:
- A path that starts from the topmost directory in the file system.
- catch:
- To prevent an exception from terminating a program using the
try and except statements.
- database:
- A file whose contents are organized like a dictionary with keys that correspond to values.
