Some basic newbie questions...

[jonathan.beckett]

Hi all,

While working on support at work, I have been picking away at Python -
because I think it could be a valuable scripting tool for building
utilities from. I have been reading the python.org tutorials, and
playing around with some basic code, but I have ended up with a few
questions that probably have straightforward answers - any quick
explanations or assistance would be fantastic...


Question 1...
Given the code below, why does the count method return what it does?
How *should* you call the count method?
  a = []
  a.append(1)
  print a.count


Question 2...
What is the correct way of looping through a list object in a class via
a method of it? (I've hit all sorts of errors picking away at this, and
none of the tutorials I've found so far cover it very well) - apologies
for the arbitrary class - it's the first example I thought up...

class Gun:
    Shells = 10

class Battleship:
    Gun1 = Gun()
    Gun2 = Gun()
    Guns = [Gun1,Gun2]

    def getShellsLeft(self):
        NumShells = 0
        for aGun in Guns:
            NumShells = NumShells + aGun.Shells
        return NumShells

Bizmark = Battleship()

print Bizmark.getShellsLeft()


In the above code, I guess I'm just asking for the *correct* way to do
these simple kinds of things...