Chap. 3 (Conds Execution & Exception Handling)

Question 1

Define Body

Answer 1

The sequence of statements within a compound statement.

Question 2

Define Boolean Expression

Answer 2

An expression whose value is either True or False.

Question 3

Define Branch

Answer 3

One of the alternative sequences of statements in a conditional statement.

Question 4

Define Chained Conditional

Answer 4

A conditional statement with a series of alternative branches.

Question 5

Define Comparison Operator

Answer 5

One of the operators that compares its operands: ==, !=, >, <, >=, and <=.

Question 6

Define Conditional Statement

Answer 6

A statement that controls the flow of execution depending on some condition.

Question 7

Define Condition

Answer 7

The boolean expression in a conditional statement that determines which branch is executed.

Question 8

Define Compound Statement

Answer 8

A statement that consists of a header and a body. The header ends with a colon (:). The body is indented relative to the header.

Question 9

Define Guardian Pattern

Answer 9

Where we construct a logical expression with additional comparisons to take advantage of the short-circuit behavior.

Question 10

Define Logical Operator

Answer 10

One of the operators that combines boolean expressions: and, or, and not.

Question 11

Define Nested Conditional

Answer 11

A conditional statement that appears in one of the branches of another conditional statement.

Question 12

Define Traceback

Answer 12

A list of functions that are executing, printed when an exception occurs.

Question 13

Define Short Circut

Answer 13

When Python is part-way through evaluating a logical expression and stops the evaluation because Python knows the final value for the expression without needing to evaluate the rest of the expression.