Chapter 3 - Conditionals Flashcards
The sequence of statements within a compound statement.
Body
An expression whose value is either True or False.
Boolean expression
One of the alternative sequences of statements in a conditional statement.
Branch
A conditional statement with a series of alternative branches.
Chained Conditional
One of the operators that compares its operands: ==, !=, >, =, and <=
Comparison Operator
A statement that controls the flow of execution depending on some condition.
Conditional Statement
The boolean expression in a conditional statement that determines which branch is executed.
Condition
A statement that consists of a header and a body. The header ends with a colon (:). The body is indented relative to the header.
Compound Statement
Where we construct a logical expression with additional comparisons to take advantage of the short-circuit behavior.
Guardian Pattern
One of the operators that combines boolean expressions: and, or, and not.
Logical Operator
A conditional statement that appears in one of the branches of another conditional statement.
Nested Conditional
A list of the functions that are executing, printed when an exception occurs.
Traceback
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.
Short Circuit
