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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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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