On 6/13/05, Chuck Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > they can handle just fine. After a little experience with the > interpreter, they can easily pick up methods: > > words = s.split() ...
I believe that "dir( )", when combined with an interactive shell, is the most powerful command in Python. For an example, I made an apparently overly-complicated database to interpret my school's records. When I was trying to figure out which rooms were used by which teachers (in both directions--room by teacher and teacher by room), I started by doing dir(school) to remember what my categories had been, and then eventually figured out what I could loop over and what attribute I wanted. I eventually remembered that school.classes.periods.teachers could be compared to school.classes.periods.rooms in order to come up with what I wanted. This is also how I explore modules with which I am not familiar, and one of the first things I ask my students to do is to import math dir(math) _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
