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'].