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Python Clean Start
Knowing The Language
Getting help
Help in Python is always available right in the interpreter. If you want to know how an object works, all you have to do is call help(<object>)! Also useful are dir(), which shows you all the object's methods, and <object>.doc, which shows you its documentation string:
>>> help(5) Help on int object: (etc etc) >>> dir(5) ['__abs__', '__add__', ...] >>> abs.__doc__ 'abs(number) -> number Return the absolute value of the argument.'