Some basic newbie questions...

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-12-28, jonathan.beckett <jonathan.beckett at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm just finding it a bit weird that some of the built in functions are
> static, rather than methods of objects (such as len() being used to
> find the length of a list).

Well, they actually are methods of objects (at least they are
now -- maybe they didn't used to be).

len(foo) is just syntactic sugar for foo.__len__()

I think.

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