On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote: >> How would Python know whether you want find for gettext, mmap, str, >> xml.etree.ElementTree.Element or xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree? > > > Absolutely, but a newbie doesn't even guess that more than one find would > exist. Or even that there would need to be more than one.
That's exactly it. I'm just getting to the point of being able to understand how much I don't know, and (I'm only a little embarrassed to admit) Alan's empty-string example was an "ah-ha" moment for me. I expect Help will be a great deal more useful now (of course, as I type that I realize I could have used the class name, help(str.find), instead of an impromptu instance. Another little ah-ha). And of course, the instant I understood all that, the point that Mark made became obvious. But I didn't see it before. -- Keith _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
