"Neil Cerutti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | On 2007-05-10, HMS Surprise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Trying not to be a whiner but I sure have trouble finding | > syntax in the reference material. I want to know about list | > operations such as append. Is there a pop type function? I | > looked in tutorial, language reference, and lib for list, | > append, sequence. Is there a place where us doofi ( who may not | > have our heads out in the sunlight) may find all related syntax | > grouped together? | | You need the material in the Python Manual in the astonishingly | useful Library Reference section 1.2.3: Built-In Types. The only | thing you'll look at nearly as much is 1.2.1: Built-In Functions.
In the current version of the library reference, these are chapter 3 http://docs.python.org/lib/types.html and section 2.1 http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html A substantial number of newbie questions are answered therein. 'append' has several entries in the substantial lib ref index. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list