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Re: How modules work in Python

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From Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
Subject Re: How modules work in Python
Date Sun, 16 Nov 2014 21:56:05 -0500 (EST)
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(Please don't top-post. Use interleaved posting.  And remove parts
 you didn't respond to.)

(While I'm criticizing,  I should point out that your quoting
 seems doublespaced.  That makes me suspect buggy googlegroups. 
 If you're using that, you should either find a real newsreader,
 use the mailing list, or manually fix the double spacing. 
 Hundres of posts on here about it, just search out one of
 them)

Abdul Abdul <abdul.sw84@gmail.com> Wrote in message:
> Dave,
> 
> Thanks for your nice explanation. For your answer on one of my questions:
> 
> 
>> Modules don't have methods. open is an ordinary function in the module.
> 
> Isn't "method" and "function" used interchangeably? In other words, aren't they the same thing? Or, Python has some naming conventions here?

Certainly not. A method is a very specic kind of function, you'll
 learn about it when you study classes. Some languages blur the
 distinction,  by not having any functions outside of classes. But
 that's not Python. 

> 
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DaveA

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Re: How modules work in Python Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-11-16 21:56 -0500

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