[Chicago] How do you get up to speed with an api?

[Brian Curtin]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:14, Tathagata Dasgupta <tathagatadg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi *,
> Besides RTFM, test cases, how do make yourself familiar with an api
> ... basically discovering what hides underneath and how get things
> done with it ...
> I found bpython from this list, and it has been fantastic compared to
> help(foo) and searching ... specifically the intellisence prompting me
> whats underneath (with the doc, and even F2-ing to the original code
> itself ) ...
>
> Any tricks, tips you want to share in this respect?


Read the code itself. Docs, tests, and examples are all great. Actually
looking under the hood is a seemingly under-used tactic.
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