about in built function in python

[shakti kumar]

what are scripts in IDLE python to assess all in built functions

[bartonc]

what are scripts in IDLE python to assess all in built functions

IDLE is the IDE that "comes with" Python. In the Python Shell window in IDLE you can do things like:

>>> help()

Welcome to Python 2.4!  This is the online help utility.

If this is your first time using Python, you should definitely check out
the tutorial on the Internet at [url]http://www.python.org/doc/tut/[/url].

Enter the name of any module, keyword, or topic to get help on writing
Python programs and using Python modules.  To quit this help utility and
return to the interpreter, just type "quit".

To get a list of available modules, keywords, or topics, type "modules",
"keywords", or "topics".  Each module also comes with a one-line summary
of what it does; to list the modules whose summaries contain a given word
such as "spam", type "modules spam".

help> 
<<< 'topics'

Here is a list of available topics.  Enter any topic name to get more help.

ASSERTION           DELETION            LOOPING             SEQUENCES
ASSIGNMENT          DICTIONARIES        MAPPINGMETHODS      SHIFTING
ATTRIBUTEMETHODS    DICTIONARYLITERALS  MAPPINGS            SLICINGS
ATTRIBUTES          DYNAMICFEATURES     METHODS             SPECIALATTRIBUTES
AUGMENTEDASSIGNMENT ELLIPSIS            MODULES             SPECIALIDENTIFIERS
BACKQUOTES          EXCEPTIONS          NAMESPACES          SPECIALMETHODS
BASICMETHODS        EXECUTION           NONE                STRINGMETHODS
BINARY              EXPRESSIONS         NUMBERMETHODS       STRINGS
BITWISE             FILES               NUMBERS             SUBSCRIPTS
BOOLEAN             FLOAT               OBJECTS             TRACEBACKS
CALLABLEMETHODS     FORMATTING          OPERATORS           TRUTHVALUE
CALLS               FRAMEOBJECTS        PACKAGES            TUPLELITERALS
CLASSES             FRAMES              POWER               TUPLES
CODEOBJECTS         FUNCTIONS           PRECEDENCE          TYPEOBJECTS
COERCIONS           IDENTIFIERS         PRINTING            TYPES
COMPARISON          IMPORTING           PRIVATENAMES        UNARY
COMPLEX             INTEGER             RETURNING           UNICODE
CONDITIONAL         LISTLITERALS        SCOPING             
CONVERSIONS         LISTS               SEQUENCEMETHODS1    
DEBUGGING           LITERALS            SEQUENCEMETHODS2    

help> 
<<< 

You are now leaving help and returning to the Python interpreter.
If you want to ask for help on a particular object directly from the
interpreter, you can type "help(object)".  Executing "help('string')"
has the same effect as typing a particular string at the help> prompt.
>>>

[ghostdog74]

what are scripts in IDLE python to assess all in built functions

to get a list of all the built-in functions, you can do this

>>> help(__builtins__)