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. To start to learn Python I've set myself the task of coding a viewer/editor for Google Contacts and Google Calendar, mainly because I've been experiencing some synchronisation anomalies lately. This has so far entailed getting into Google's Contacts API. Although they give some examples, my searches haven't been able to pull up anything approaching comprehensive documentation on each class/method. Can anyone experienced advise on how they would usually go about learning to use third party APIs/classes like these? With thanks, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
