very helpful indeed. i did a help([]) to see if it would give me anything for a list. wow. thanks a lot.
-sk Terry Reedy wrote: > The easy way to get one answer for buildin funcs and methods is the help > function in the interactive interpreter (and Idle's and probably other > imitations thereof) is, for example, > > >>> help(str.join) > Help on method_descriptor: > > join(...) > S.join(sequence) -> string > > Return a string which is the concatenation of the strings in the > sequence. The separator between elements is S. > > To remind how to use 'help', 'help' is more informative than 'help(help)' > ;-) > > Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list