Brian van den Broek wrote:
> I had the same sort of question as Wildemar and I set about
> investigating as any good pythonista would by typing help(apply) at
> the interactive prompt. That produced a help text that started:
>
> Help on built-in function apply in module __builtin__:
>
> But:
>
> >>> [x for x in dir('__builtin__') if 'apply' in x]
> []
>
> ? If apply is in the __builtin__ module, why doesn't
> dir('__builtin__') know about it?
The string "__builtin__" doesn't have an apply attribute; but the
__builtin__ module has:
>>> import __builtin__
>>> "apply" in dir(__builtin__)
True
Peter
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