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
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