Python - Glossary

7.11 Glossary

compound data type

A data type in which the values are made up of components, or elements, that are themselves values.

traverse

To iterate through the elements of a set, performing a similar operation on each.

index

A variable or value used to select a member of an ordered set, such as a character from a string.

slice

A part of a string specified by a range of indices.

mutable

A compound data types whose elements can be assigned new values.

counter

A variable used to count something, usually initialized to zero and then incremented.

increment

To increase the value of a variable by one.

decrement

To decrease the value of a variable by one.

whitespace

Any of the characters that move the cursor without printing visible characters. The constant string.whitespace contains all the whitespace characters.