Just started as in, I’m about an hour into a 4 hour intro video. Seeing two basic ways of manipulating things and don’t understand the difference.

If I want to know the length of a string and I just guess at how to do it I would try one of these two things,

  1. Len(string)
  2. string.len()

What is the difference between these types of statements? How do I think about this to know which one I should expect to work?

  • FizzyOrange
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    4 months ago

    Python is not a functional language. It’s highly imperative. For example if-else is a statement, not an expression.

    An obvious counter-example is Rust which uses .len() and is a quite functional language (much more than Python).

    Also object oriented languages aren’t the “opposite” of functional languages. Guess what the O stands for in OCaml.

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      4 months ago

      Rust is Object Orientated Language.

      Python is a function Orientated Language. ( Python 3 is less but its still has that orientation )
      Because python is a scripting language and their Object Orientated Features are not that expanded like a “normal” Object Orientated Language like C# or Java.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming

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        4 months ago

        Not sure where to start with this but… no lol.