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polygon function, 31 random walk programming, 134, 200
polymorphism, 168, 169 rank, 171
pop method, 94, 175 read method, 143
popen function, 142 readline method, 83, 143
portability, 6 reassignment, 63, 68, 90, 110
positional argument, 164, 169, 190 Rectangle class, 149
postcondition, 36, 59, 179 recursion, 43, 47, 55, 57
pprint module, 112 base case, 44
precedence, 199 infinite, 44, 58, 196
precondition, 36, 37, 59, 179 recursive definition, 56, 124
prefix, 131 red-black tree, 206
pretty print, 112 reduce pattern, 93, 100
print function, 3 reducible word, 113, 124
print statement, 3, 7, 165, 197 reduction to a previously solved problem,
problem solving, 1, 6 85
profile module, 133 reduction to a previously solved problem,
program, 1, 6 87
program testing, 87 redundancy, 5
programmer-defined function, 22, 129 refactoring, 34–36, 180
programmer-defined type, 147, 153, 155, reference, 96, 97, 100
162, 165, 173 aliasing, 96
Project Gutenberg, 125 rehashing, 208
prompt, 2, 6, 45 relational operator, 40, 173
prose, 5 relative path, 139, 145
prototype and patch, 156, 158, 160 reload function, 144, 195
pseudorandom, 126, 134 remove method, 94
pure function, 156, 160 repetition, 30
Puzzler, 88, 113, 124 list, 91
Pythagorean theorem, 52 replace method, 125
Python repr function, 144
running, 2 representation, 147, 149, 171
Python 2, 2, 3, 33, 40, 45 return statement, 44, 51, 199
Python in a browser, 2 return value, 17, 26, 51, 150
PythonAnywhere, 2 tuple, 117
reverse lookup, 112
quadratic, 209 reverse lookup, dictionary, 106
quadratic growth, 203 reverse word pair, 101
quotation mark, 3, 4, 35, 74, 194 reversed function, 121
rotation
radd method, 167 letters, 113
radian, 18 rotation, letter, 80
radix sort, 201 rubber duck debugging, 134
rage, 200 running pace, 8, 15, 160
raise statement, 107, 112, 159 running Python, 2
Ramanujan, Srinivasa, 70 runtime error, 13, 44, 46, 193, 196
randint function, 101, 126 RuntimeError, 45, 58
random function, 126
random module, 101, 126, 175 safe language, 13
random number, 126 sanity check, 111
random text, 131 scaffolding, 53, 60, 112