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