Yet another newbie question - standard or built-in methods

[Raymond Hettinger]

[Kamus of Kadizhar]
> OK, I've been playing with the snippets of code posted earlier.
>
> Among them are things like
>
> allmovies[movie] = allmovies.get(movie, 0) + 1
>
>  From reading the docs, I've gathered that the '.get(xxx,yyy)' part is a
> method that operates on the dictonary allmovies.  (Sorry if I have the
> terminology wrong).
>
> But nowhere can I find a list of 'standard' or 'built-in' methods, or
> methods that can be used with various variable classes.  What exactly
> does 'get' do?  This seems to be so basic to python that it's not
> explained anywhere, but that's no help to me.... Is there a list with
> explanations somewhere?  I've been through the tutorials and guides, and
> all just start using these with no explanation of what they do and how
> they work.
>
> Maybe I've missed it somewhere; just point me to the right FM, so I can
> RTFM.

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/typesmapping.html


Raymond Hettinger