Chad Netzer cnetzer at sonic.net
Mon Sep 1 01:48:50 EDT 2003

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On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 21:41, Daniel R. Smorey Jr. wrote:
> Why can't I just go to www.python.org and click 
> on Search and then type in split and it bring me to the split() function 
> of the string module?

Not a bad idea.

>   Why does it have to be so hard?

Start up a python interpreter and type:

help('string.split')

To see the whole string module:

help('string')

It also work directly on module and function objects:

import string
help(string)

Finally, the string module is being slowly phased out.  You can use the
string constructor type instead (in Python 2.2 and later):

help(str.split)
help(str)
etc...

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Chad Netzer

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