Glossary: Python Basics

Welcome! This alphabetized glossary contains many of the terms you'll find within this course. This comprehensive glossary also includes additional industry-recognized terms not used in course videos. These terms are
important for you to recognize when working in the industry, participating in user groups, and participating in other certificate programs.

Term Definition
AI AI (artificial intelligence) is the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings.
Application
Application development, or app development, is the process of planning, designing, creating, testing, and deploying a software application to perform various business operations.
development
Arithmetic Operations Arithmetic operations are the basic calculations we make in everyday life like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It is also called as algebraic operations or mathematical operations.
Array of numbers Set of numbers or objects that follow a pattern presented as an arrangement of rows and columns to explain multiplication.
Assignment operator
Assignment operator is a type of Binary operator that helps in modifying the variable to its left with the use of its value to the right. The symbol used for assignment operator is "=".
in Python
Asterisk Symbol "* " used to perform various operations in Python.
A backslash is an escape character used in Python strings to indicate that the character immediately following it should be treated in a special way, such as being treated as escaped character or raw
Backslash
string.
Boolean Denoting a system of algebraic notation used to represent logical propositions by means of the binary digits 0 (false) and 1 (true).
Colon A colon is used to represent an indented block. It is also used to fetch data and index ranges or arrays.
Concatenate Link (things) together in a chain or series.
Data engineering Data engineers are responsible for turning raw data into information that an organization can understand and use. Their work involves blending, testing, and optimizing data from numerous sources.
Data Science is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on extracting knowledge from data sets which are typically huge in amount. The field encompasses analysis, preparing data for analysis, and
Data science
presenting findings to inform high-level decisions in an organization.
Data type Data type refers to the type of value a variable has and what type of mathematical, relational or logical operations can be applied without causing an error.
Double quote Symbol “ “ used to represent strings in Python.
Escape sequence An escape sequence is two or more characters that often begin with an escape character that tell the computer to perform a function or command.
Expression An expression is a combination of operators and operands that is interpreted to produce some other value.
Float Python float () function is used to return a floating-point number from a number or a string representation of a numeric value.
Forward slash Symbol “/“ used to perform various operation sin Python
Foundational Denoting an underlying basis or principle; fundamental.
Immutable Immutable Objects are of in-built datatypes like int, float, bool, string, Unicode, and tuple. In simple words, an immutable object can’t be changed after it is created.
Integer An integer is the number zero (0), a positive natural number (1, 2, 3, and so on) or a negative integer with a minus sign (−1, −2, −3, and so on.)
Manipulate Is the process of modifying a string or creating a new string by making changes to existing strings.
Mathematical
A mathematical convention is a fact, name, notation, or usage which is generally agreed upon by mathematicians.
conventions
Mathematical
Expressions in math are mathematical statements that have a minimum of two terms containing numbers or variables, or both, connected by an operator in between.
expressions
Mathematical
The mathematical “operation” refers to calculating a value using operands and a math operator.
operations
Negative indexing Allows you to access elements of a sequence (such as a list, a string, or a tuple) from the end, using negative numbers as indexes.
Operands The quantity on which an operation is to be done.
Operators in Python Operators are used to perform operations on variables and values.
Parentheses Parentheses is used to call an object.
Replicate To make an exact copy of.
Sequence A sequence is formally defined as a function whose domain is an interval of integers.
Single quote Symbol ‘ ‘ used to represent strings in python.
Slicing in Python Slicing is used to return a portion from defined list.
Special characters A special character is one that is not considered a number or letter. Symbols, accent marks, and punctuation marks are considered special characters.
Stride value Stride is the number of bytes from one row of pixels in memory to the next row of pixels in memory.
Strings In Python, Strings are arrays of bytes representing Unicode characters.
Substring A substring is a sequence of characters that are part of an original string.
Type casting The process of converting one data type to another data type is called Typecasting or Type Coercion or Type Conversion.
Types in Python Data types are the classification or categorization of data items. It represents the kind of value that tells what operations can be performed on a particular data.
Variables Variables are containers for storing data values.