[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > I'm not 100% sure what is a library in python.
Technically, nothing. > > string.replace() I'm 90% sure is a function in the string module. it is. > However something like this: > foo = "bar" > foo.Capitalize() s/C/c/ > bar.capitalize is a method. ...which is usually built from a function. > > Read some intro to OOP, for a better understanding, but the main > difference between a function and a method, is that a method is > associated with some class or object. Note that (part of) this association is made at runtime. Before you try to access it, it's a function (usually defined in the namespace of the class). When you try to access it, it's wrapped into a MethodWrapper object, that turns it into a method. > In Python it's really only > objects (even class is an object) Hence when I created the string > object foo, and executed capitalize() it was a method on the string > object. the same thing as a function might look something like: > > # defining a function > def capitalize(inStr) > #do stuff here to capitalize the string outStr = inStr[0].upper() + intStr[1:].lower() > return outStr > > foo = capitalize("bar") Defining a method is really just defining a function: >>> class StringWrapper(str): pass ... >>> s = StringWrapper('foo') >>> s 'foo' >>> def capitalize(s): ... print "yaoo, I was just a function," ... "I'll be promoted to a method" ... try: ... return s[0].upper() + s[1:].lower() ... except (IndexError, AttributeError, TypeError), e: ... return "too bad, could not capitlize %s : %s" % (s, e) ... >>> StringWrapper.capitalize = capitalize >>> s.capitalize() yaoo, I was just a function, I'll be promoted to a method 'Foo' >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list