In article <mailman.3787.1324197792.27778.python-l...@python.org>, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Never underestimate the power of Python's introspection tools, especially > > the two simplest ones: print and type. Often you will learn more in 10 > > minutes experimentation than in an hour googling. > > +1 QOTW. I refer to this as "IIDPIO debugging" (Eyed Pio) - If In > Doubt, Print It Out. I always knew it by the name "Ask the computer". As in, "WTF is foo? Let's ask the computer!". In addition to print and type, I'm a big fan of dir(). Often, I know an object has a method to do what I want, but I can't remember the name. For example, the other day, I was using a set (which I don't use very often). I needed the method to remove an item from the set. Faster than finding the right place in the docs, I just fired up an interpreter and typed dir(set()) at it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
