Hello everyone,
I'm a Python beginner and just getting familiar with it. (I need it for my
EE B.Sc. project)
For the learning purposes I use IDLE and (Learning Python by written by Mark
Lutz).
Let's say that I have some earlier experience with C language, but still
Python is a different one )))
Anyway, the question I would like to ask is about understanding "help"
contents.
It may look to obvious and even a dumb question, but still I need your help.
Here is a brief background with example in order to introduce my problem in
more clear way:
Suppose I get some list created:
>>>L=[i for i in range(1,15,2)]
As it can be seen, this is the odd numbers list: [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13]
Supppose I need to check the occurrence of number 7, in this case I'll just
write:
>>>L.index(7)
The result is :3
So here is the question itself:
If I use the help command to check the "range" command I get this info:
range(stop) -> range object
range(start, stop[, step]) -> range object
As you've seen in my example I used range(1,15,2). But this knowledge I got
from googling a couple of sites.
I still can't understand the "help" command description.
For instance, how do I need to understand that (start,stop[,step]) it's
just a three numbers?
What do those brackets--> [,] mean?
The same about "str.replace" command, where I get this:
S.replace(old, new[, count]) - using this description I can't really
understand how to write the "replace" function parameters.
So I googled it up and found this example in order to get more clear
understanding of command use.
str = "this is string example....wow!!! this is really string"
print str.replace("is", "was")
print str.replace("is", "was", 3)
The result:
thwas was string example....wow!!! thwas was really string
thwas was string example....wow!!! thwas is really string
But still how do I know that those "old, new" are the strings and [,count]
just a number?
I mean, it was more naturally(as a baginner) to me to write
str.replace(is,was[,3]) and that's all.
Finally, as for my opinion, this is a lame way to learn "what a command do"
by constantly googling it for examples.
I need to get more familiar with "help", but the main problem, is that I
couldn't find any suitable explanations/tutorials about "help" syntax and
etc. (maybe didn't search well).
Any explanations/links will be greatly appreciated. I need some help for
"help" ^_^
Thanks in advance,
Ivan.
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