[Tutor] Two questions

[Marco A. Sousa]

Timothy M. Brauch (tbrauch@tbrauch.com) wrote:

> >Finally, is there a Web link that one can go to that describes each
> function in each
> >Python module? For example, if I wanted to know what functions are
> available in the
> >"time" or "string" modules, along with descriptions of each funtion and
> examples of
> >how to use each, where can one go to get this information.
> >
> One thing to check is the online Module index available at
> <http://www.python.org/doc/current/modindex.html>   That will explain most
> of the modules, and it is easy to find the specific one you are looking for.
> The other thing is to play around with the dir(x) function.  It should tell
> you what you can do to x.  And, if the module is coded nicely, you can try a
> print x.__str__() and see where that gets you.

You may also like this post:

http://www.daa.com.au/pipermail/pygtk/2002-January/002348.html

It's about auto completion in interactive sessions.
Help me a lot, to the point I cant live without autocompletion :)

Hope it helps.

Marco