Chapter 18 - Concept Summary

Chapter 18 included the following concepts from computing.

• Comment - A comment in Python starts with a # and the computer will ignore everything from that character to the end of that line. Comments are used to explain your code to people.

Summary of Python Keywords and Functions

• Close - The close procedure closes a file after you are done processing it.

• Find - The find function is used like this strName.find(test). It returns the index of test in strName if it is found and -1 if it is not found.

• Open - The open procedure opens the passed file for either reading or writing.

• Split - The split function returns a list of strings separated by a specified character. For example, if message = "Nora, Jones, 15" then message.split(",") would return ['Nora', 'Jones', '15'].

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