Chapter 12 Flashcards
1
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tuple
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An immutable sequence of elements.
2
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tuple assignment
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an assignment with a sequence on the right side and a tuple of variables on the left. The right side is evaluated and then its elements are assigned to the variables on the left.
3
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gather
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the operation of assembling a variable-length argument tuple.
4
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scatter
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the operation of treating a sequence as a list of arguments.
5
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DSU
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abbreviation of ‘decorate-sort-undecorate’, a pattern that involves building a list of tuples, sorting, and extracting part of the result.
6
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data structure
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a collection of related values, often organized in lists, dictionaries, tuples, etc.
7
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shape (of a data structure)
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a summary of the type, size and composition of a data structure.
