On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:19:35 +0200, Rene Pijlman wrote: > Tony Burrows: >>With something like Java I can find the syntax of a method call with no >>problems, how do I do the same with Python? > > The basic syntax is just the name, with parameters in brakcets: > > object.method(par1, par2, ...) > > This is explained in the documentation, of course. > >>how do I find out what parameters are needed and what they represent? > > This is documented in the library reference: > http://docs.python.org/modindex.html > > You can also query the module for its docstrings: > >>>>import os >>>>help(os) > ... >>>>help(os.utime) > Help on built-in function utime in module nt: > ... Wow! Thanks for that, I didn't know about the help command. The problem was that things like MySQLdb wasn't in the link you give (or at least, I couldn't find it - though poking around did take me to the database section and there it was).
Tony -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
