> I'm using a badly documented module and therefore need to find out > about how to access the elements in a list. > (I need to do this in Python 1.5.3)
I presume this is the same in 1.5 use dir(): >>> import os >>> dir(os) ['F_OK', 'O_APPEND', 'O_BINARY', 'O_CREAT', 'O_EXCL', 'O_NOINHERIT', 'O_RANDOM', 'O_RDONLY', 'O_RDWR', 'O_SEQUENTIAL', 'O_SHORT_LIVED', 'O_TEMPORARY', 'O_TEXT', (etc) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list