From the course: Learning Python

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 24,900 courses taught by industry experts.

Built-in functions

Built-in functions - Python Tutorial

From the course: Learning Python

Built-in functions

- [Person] In the previous chapter, we learned about the basics of the Python language and how to write some relatively simple programs. In this chapter, we're going to move beyond the basics to some of the features that you'll use when writing more comprehensive programs, so let's start by taking a look at some of the features that Python gives you right out of the box. Sometimes, Python is called the "batteries included" language because it has so much great stuff already built in, so here at the homepage, I'm going to hover over the "Documentation" menu and I'm going to click on this button here labeled "Python Doc," and that's going to take me to the documentation page for Python, and I'm going to click on this "Library reference" link right here, and that's going to take me to the section for the Python Standard Library, which is a really big repository of prebuilt code that you can use in your programs, so if I scroll down a little bit, all right, you can see that there's a lot…

Contents