Chapter 2. Statements and Expressions

Terms in This Chapter

  • Assignment

  • Case sensitivity

  • Class

  • Collection type

  • Comment

  • Declaration

  • Definition

  • Document string

  • Escape sequence

  • Expression

  • File path

  • Function

  • Immutability

  • Initialization

  • Instance

  • Key

  • Key/value pair

  • Literal

  • Method

  • Module

  • Object

  • Operator

  • Runtime

  • Sequence

  • Source code

  • Statement execution

  • Tuple

  • Type

  • Value

  • Variable

  • Whitespace

In this chapter, we continue our tour of Python with perhaps the most basic feature: statements. We'll also look at data types, comments, variables, and literals.

Novices, you should know the drill by now: You learn to program by programming, so try to follow along with the interactive sessions in this chapter. If you get stuck on something, just enter in a few of the examples in Jython and skip ...

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