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.
