[Baypiggies] Fwd: [Tutor] what.built-in

[jim stockford]

you bet it helps. i have to think some more, of course.

On Oct 4, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:

> $ python
> Python 2.4.3 (#2, Apr 27 2006, 14:43:58)
> [GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> __builtins__
> <module '__builtin__' (built-in)>
>>>> dir(__builtins__)
> ['ArithmeticError', 'AssertionError', 'AttributeError',
> 'DeprecationWarning', 'EOFError', 'Ellipsis', 'EnvironmentError',
> 'Exception', 'False', 'FloatingPointError', 'FutureWarning',
> 'IOError', 'ImportError', 'IndentationError', 'IndexError',
> 'KeyError', 'KeyboardInterrupt', 'LookupError', 'MemoryError',
> 'NameError', 'None', 'NotImplemented', 'NotImplementedError',
> 'OSError', 'OverflowError', 'OverflowWarning',
> 'PendingDeprecationWarning', 'ReferenceError', 'RuntimeError',
> 'RuntimeWarning', 'StandardError', 'StopIteration', 'SyntaxError',
> 'SyntaxWarning', 'SystemError', 'SystemExit', 'TabError', 'True',
> 'TypeError', 'UnboundLocalError', 'UnicodeDecodeError',
> 'UnicodeEncodeError', 'UnicodeError', 'UnicodeTranslateError',
> 'UserWarning', 'ValueError', 'Warning', 'ZeroDivisionError', '_',
> '__debug__', '__doc__', '__import__', '__name__', 'abs', 'apply',
> 'basestring', 'bool', 'buffer', 'callable', 'chr', 'classmethod',
> 'cmp', 'coerce', 'compile', 'complex', 'copyright', 'credits',
> 'delattr', 'dict', 'dir', 'divmod', 'enumerate', 'eval', 'execfile',
> 'exit', 'file', 'filter', 'float', 'frozenset', 'getattr', 'globals',
> 'hasattr', 'hash', 'help', 'hex', 'id', 'input', 'int', 'intern',
> 'isinstance', 'issubclass', 'iter', 'len', 'license', 'list',
> 'locals', 'long', 'map', 'max', 'min', 'object', 'oct', 'open', 'ord',
> 'pow', 'property', 'quit', 'range', 'raw_input', 'reduce', 'reload',
> 'repr', 'reversed', 'round', 'set', 'setattr', 'slice', 'sorted',
> 'staticmethod', 'str', 'sum', 'super', 'tuple', 'type', 'unichr',
> 'unicode', 'vars', 'xrange', 'zip']
>
> Does that help?
>
> Note that just because everything is an object and because these are
> builtins that these are built into "object"; they aren't.  Also note
> that not all the builtins are functions.  There's all kinds of stuff.
>
> -jj
>
> On 9/29/06, jim stockford <jim at well.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> > From: jim stockford <jim at well.com>
>> > Date: September 29, 2006 6:24:31 AM PDT
>> > To: tutor at python.org
>> > Subject: [Tutor] what.built-in
>> >
>> > from
>> > http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html
>> > some functions are always available--the built-in functions.
>> >
>> > (from elsewhere) everything in python is an object.
>> >
>> > --------------------
>> >
>> > hey, from abs() to zip() there's type() and super() and str()
>> > and setattr() and ... dir() and... they're the built-ins
>> >
>> > my question: what.abs()  what.zip() etc.?
>> >
>> > I think there must be a base object, a la java or Nextstep,
>> > that supports these functions. what is it?
>> >
>> > maybe it's not practical, but it's driving me nuts anyway.
>> > thanks in advance.
>> >
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