Re: @PyNoobs: The Fundamental Five Built-in Functions, and Beyond!

2011-07-28 Thread rantingrick
On Jul 26, 9:53 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 7/26/2011 8:01 PM, rantingrick wrote: > > > Most new user think that printing an object to stdout is all they'll > > ever need. However when you call print -- or sys.stdout.write(object) > > -- you are only seeing a "friendly" version of the object. > >

Re: @PyNoobs: The Fundamental Five Built-in Functions, and Beyond!

2011-07-26 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/26/2011 8:01 PM, rantingrick wrote: The "Fundamental Five" built-in functions There are quite a few helpful built in functions provided to the python programmer howev

Re: @PyNoobs: The Fundamental Five Built-in Functions, and Beyond!

2011-07-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:01 am rantingrick wrote: > > The "Fundamental Five" built-in functions > > There are quite a few helpful built in functions provided to the > python pro

Re: @PyNoobs: The Fundamental Five Built-in Functions, and Beyond!

2011-07-26 Thread Thomas Jollans
Beyond! On 27/07/11 02:01, rantingrick wrote: > -- > 1. help() > -- > -- > 2. dir() > -- Pro tip: the "I

@PyNoobs: The Fundamental Five Built-in Functions, and Beyond!

2011-07-26 Thread rantingrick
The "Fundamental Five" built-in functions There are quite a few helpful built in functions provided to the python programmer however in my mind five of them are the most impo