Tony Burrows: >With something like Java I can find the syntax of a method call with no >problems, how do I do the same with Python?
The basic syntax is just the name, with parameters in brakcets: object.method(par1, par2, ...) This is explained in the documentation, of course. >how do I find out what parameters are needed and what they represent? This is documented in the library reference: http://docs.python.org/modindex.html You can also query the module for its docstrings: >>>import os >>>help(os) ... >>>help(os.utime) Help on built-in function utime in module nt: ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list