Where are list methods documented?

Bryan belred at gmail.com
Wed Feb 2 01:48:05 EST 2005


Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     Grant> where are the methods of basic types documented?  
> 
> The other day I suggested the most valuable doc page to bookmark is the
> global module index.  Here's a demonstration.  Start at:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/modindex.html
> 
> Click "__builtin__", which takes you to
> 
>     http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-builtin.html
> 
> Click the "2" in "See Chapter 2", which takes you to
> 
>     http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/builtin.html#builtin
> 
> Scroll down to section 2.3.6 and choose your sequence poison.
> 
> I use the dev docs instead of the latest release docs because I generally
> run from CVS on my system, however in this case it has the added advantage
> that the link on the __builtin__ page is more useful.
> 
> Skip
> 
> 
>     


wow, that's pretty obscure.  i barely even saw the link to chapter 2.  i always 
the modules index page open and i always wished there was an explicit link to 
lists, tuples, dict, set, etc.  maybe these explicit links could be at the top 
of the __builtins__ page.

bryan




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