6.G: Strings (Glossary)
- Page ID
- 3100
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- counter
- A variable used to count something, usually initialized to zero and then incremented.
- empty string
- A string with no characters and length 0, represented by two quotation marks.
- 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 sequence
- A sequence of characters in a format string, like
%d
, that specifies how a value should be formatted. - format string
- A string, used with the format operator, that contains format sequences.
- flag
- A boolean variable used to indicate whether a condition is true or false.
- invocation
- A statement that calls a method.
- immutable
- The property of a sequence whose items cannot be assigned.
- index
- An integer value used to select an item in a sequence, such as a character in a string.
- item
- One of the values in a sequence.
- method
- A function that is associated with an object and called using dot notation.
- object
- Something a variable can refer to. For now, you can use "object" and "value" interchangeably.
- search
- A pattern of traversal that stops when it finds what it is looking for.
- sequence
- An ordered set; that is, a set of values where each value is identified by an integer index.
- slice
- A part of a string specified by a range of indices.
- traverse
- To iterate through the items in a sequence, performing a similar operation on each.