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what are scripts in IDLE python to assess all in built functions
Apr 3 '07 #1
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bartonc
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what are scripts in IDLE python to assess all in built functions
IDLE is the IDE that "comes with" Python. In the Python Shell window in IDLE you can do things like:
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  1. >>> help()
  2.  
  3. Welcome to Python 2.4!  This is the online help utility.
  4.  
  5. If this is your first time using Python, you should definitely check out
  6. the tutorial on the Internet at http://www.python.org/doc/tut/.
  7.  
  8. Enter the name of any module, keyword, or topic to get help on writing
  9. Python programs and using Python modules.  To quit this help utility and
  10. return to the interpreter, just type "quit".
  11.  
  12. To get a list of available modules, keywords, or topics, type "modules",
  13. "keywords", or "topics".  Each module also comes with a one-line summary
  14. of what it does; to list the modules whose summaries contain a given word
  15. such as "spam", type "modules spam".
  16.  
  17. help> 
  18. <<< 'topics'
  19.  
  20. Here is a list of available topics.  Enter any topic name to get more help.
  21.  
  22. ASSERTION           DELETION            LOOPING             SEQUENCES
  23. ASSIGNMENT          DICTIONARIES        MAPPINGMETHODS      SHIFTING
  24. ATTRIBUTEMETHODS    DICTIONARYLITERALS  MAPPINGS            SLICINGS
  25. ATTRIBUTES          DYNAMICFEATURES     METHODS             SPECIALATTRIBUTES
  26. AUGMENTEDASSIGNMENT ELLIPSIS            MODULES             SPECIALIDENTIFIERS
  27. BACKQUOTES          EXCEPTIONS          NAMESPACES          SPECIALMETHODS
  28. BASICMETHODS        EXECUTION           NONE                STRINGMETHODS
  29. BINARY              EXPRESSIONS         NUMBERMETHODS       STRINGS
  30. BITWISE             FILES               NUMBERS             SUBSCRIPTS
  31. BOOLEAN             FLOAT               OBJECTS             TRACEBACKS
  32. CALLABLEMETHODS     FORMATTING          OPERATORS           TRUTHVALUE
  33. CALLS               FRAMEOBJECTS        PACKAGES            TUPLELITERALS
  34. CLASSES             FRAMES              POWER               TUPLES
  35. CODEOBJECTS         FUNCTIONS           PRECEDENCE          TYPEOBJECTS
  36. COERCIONS           IDENTIFIERS         PRINTING            TYPES
  37. COMPARISON          IMPORTING           PRIVATENAMES        UNARY
  38. COMPLEX             INTEGER             RETURNING           UNICODE
  39. CONDITIONAL         LISTLITERALS        SCOPING             
  40. CONVERSIONS         LISTS               SEQUENCEMETHODS1    
  41. DEBUGGING           LITERALS            SEQUENCEMETHODS2    
  42.  
  43. help> 
  44. <<< 
  45.  
  46. You are now leaving help and returning to the Python interpreter.
  47. If you want to ask for help on a particular object directly from the
  48. interpreter, you can type "help(object)".  Executing "help('string')"
  49. has the same effect as typing a particular string at the help> prompt.
  50. >>>
Apr 3 '07 #2
ghostdog74
511 Expert 256MB
what are scripts in IDLE python to assess all in built functions
to get a list of all the built-in functions, you can do this
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  1. >>> help(__builtins__)
  2.  
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