Learning new APIs/classes (beginner question)

[Emile van Sebille]

On 4/6/2012 1:41 PM Martin Jones said...
> In a nutshell: My question is: how do experienced coders learn about
> external/third-party classes/APIs?
>
> I'm teaching myself Python through a combination of Hetland's
> 'Beginning
> Python', various online tutorials and some past experience coding
> ASP/VBScript.

One resource for learning at least the bulk of python's interal library 
is http://effbot/librarybook -- of course, not much help for third party 
libraries...

Emile