English-008 DiveIntoPython

English-008 DiveIntoPython

1.the installer will prompt you to choose a destination directory.You are not limited to installing Python on the C: drive; you can install it on any drive, in any folder.
prompt [prɔmpt]   vt. 促进；激起；提示；（给演员）提白
limited ['limitid]   adj. 有限的

2.The next page looks complicated, but it’s not really. Like many installers, you have the option not to install every single component of Python 3. If disk space is especially tight, you can exclude certain components.
complicated ['kɔmplikeitid]   adj. 难懂的，复杂的
exclude [iks'klu:d]  vt. 排除；排斥；拒绝接纳；逐出

3.It probably makes absolutely no sense to you. Don’t worry about that, because you’re going to dissect it line by line.
dissect [di'sekt]  vt. 切细；仔细分析

4.The print() function is built-in; you’ll never see an explicit declaration of it.
explicit [ik'splisit]  adj. 清楚的；明确的；直率的；详述的

5.Did you know that you can use Dropbox to share files and collaborate on projects
collaborate [kə'læbəreit]  vi. 合作；勾结，通敌

6.Humans are all aliens who came to earth from outer space, a leading British scientist has claimed.
alien ['eiljən] n. 外星人；外国人，外侨
claim [kleim]  vt. 要求；声称；认领；需要

7.He claimed microbes from outer space arrived on earth from comets
microbe ['maikrəub]  n. 细菌，微生物
comet ['kɔmit]  n. 彗星

8.It is the IDE I used to learn Python, and I recommend you try it unless you have a specific reason not to.

9.Note that the keyword def starts the function declaration, followed by the function name, followed by the arguments in parentheses. Multiple arguments (not shown here) are separated with commas.
parenthesis [pə'renθisis] n. 插入语；圆括号；附带
comma ['kɔmə]  n. 逗号；停顿

10.A language in which types may be ignored; the opposite of strongly typed. VBScript is weakly typed. In VBScript, you can concatenate the string '12' and the integer 3 to get the string '123', then treat that as the integer 123, all without any explicit conversion.
concatenate [kɔn'kætineit]  vt. 使连锁；连结
explicit [ik'splisit] adj. 清楚的；明确的；直率的；详述的

11.Triple quotes signify a multi-line string. Everything between the start and end quotes is part of a single string, including carriage returns and other quote characters
triple ['tripl] adj. 三倍的；三方的 n. 三倍数；三个一组
quote [kwəut, kəut]  n. 引用
signify ['signifai]  vt. 表示；意味；预示

12.Python gives you an added incentive: the doc string is available at runtime as an attribute of the function.
incentive [in'sentiv]  n. 动机；刺激

13 Python functions have no explicit begin or end, and no curly braces to mark where the function code starts and stops. The only delimiter is a colon (:) and the indentation of the code itself.
explicit [ik'splisit]  adj. 清楚的；明确的；直率的；详述的
curly ['kə:li]  adj. 卷曲的；卷毛的；（木材）有皱状纹理的；蜷缩的
brace [breis]  n. 支柱；大括号；曲柄
delimiter [di'limitə]  n. 定界符
colon ['kəulən]  冒号
indentation [,inden'teiʃən]  n. 压痕，刻痕；凹陷；缩排；呈锯齿状

14.Python modules are objects and have several useful attributes. You can use this to easily test your modules as you write them. Here's an example that uses the if __name__ trick.
trick [trik]  n. 诡计；恶作剧；窍门；骗局；欺诈；花招

15.You can not have duplicate keys in a dictionary. Assigning a value to an existing key will wipe out the old value.
wipe [waip]  vi. 擦；打    wipe out： 彻底摧毁，消灭；擦净，擦掉；消灭；消灭，毁灭

16.Note that the new element (key 'uid', value 'sa') appears to be in the middle. In fact, it was just a coincidence that the elements appeared to be in order in the first example.
coincidence [kəu'insidəns]  n. 巧合；一致；同时发生

17.you need to be aware that dictionary keys are case-sensitive

18.Lists are Python's workhorse datatype.
workhorse ['wə:khɔ:s] n. 做重活的人；驮马；重负荷机器 adj. 工作重的；吃苦耐劳的 workhorse class： 主力类

19.First, you define a list of five elements. Note that they retain their original order. This is not an accident. A list is an ordered set of elements enclosed in square brackets.
retain [ri'tein] vt. 保持；雇；记住

20.If the left slice index is 0, you can leave it out, and 0 is implied. So li[:3] is the same as li[0:3]
implied [im'plaid]  adj. 含蓄的；暗指的 隐式的；暗指的；默示的；暗喻手法