Re: need some basic help

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This code snippet is a method on a class. What is a method? This chapter of
the book Think Python
<http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/thinkpython018.html> does a
good job of explaining it.
Without understanding this foundation, it isn't possible to really answer
your question, so definitely read at least that chapter.
Think Python was the book I first learned from and if you are new to
python, I recommend it among the other python tutorials to consider.

In this case, this method takes two things:
0) The object that it is a method of (by python convention, this is called
"self")
1) a collection of message objects (probably a list, maybe a tuple,
probably not a set)
2) a time
It then, goes through all of them and tells each one "you were received at
some particular time." by calling a method on each of the message objects.
The object that it is a method of seems to have a list of messages it has
received. So, this method sticks the collection of new message objects onto
the list of already-received messages.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Qurrat ul Ainy <qurratul.ainy1@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Can someone please explain this code below. I am new at Python .
> Thanks
>
>
> def receive_messages(self, msgs, time):
>       for msg in msgs:
>          msg.set_recv_time(time)
>       self.msgs_received.extend(msgs)
> --
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>

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need some basic help Qurrat ul Ainy <qurratul.ainy1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 17:53 -0800
  Re: need some basic help Benjamin Kulas <bkulbismuth@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 20:24 -0800
    Re: need some basic help Qurrat ul Ainy <qurratul.ainy1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-24 11:33 -0800
      Re: need some basic help Qurrat ul Ainy <qurratul.ainy1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-24 11:38 -0800
      Re: need some basic help Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-12-24 17:14 -0500
  Re: need some basic help Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-24 22:58 +1100
  Re: need some basic help Andrew Farrell <armorsmith42@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 21:58 -0600

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