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Python Python Basics (Retired) Say Hello to Python Help!

Posted by Trever Beets
Trever Beets
1,117 Points

i'm having some problems in the quiz after this "Help!" video. in the "fill in the blank" question.

in the Video it gives a few ways to get help with the str function but none of them have answered the question correctly. so somebody please help me understand exactly what this question is asking?

Mario Blokland
Mario Blokland
19,750 Points

Hi, can you post what answeres you have tried? I can then explain to you what might went wrong and make you understand it better.

3 Answers

Mario Blokland
Mario Blokland
19,750 Points

Hello again Trever,

I understand. You was almost had it though :-).

dir() doesn't help you in explaining what a method does or how to use it. It only shows the attributes of an object like the string object.

With help(str), you are asking Python for help with the string object in general. The question states to get help for the method "center" from the string object. Therefore you have to be a little bit more explicit (like you did with the rjust method). Therefore you have to slightley modifiy the call of the help(str.rjust) method which you called.

Let me know if you got it and you are welcome!

Trever Beets
Trever Beets
1,117 Points

Awesome! thank you that certainly helped me out a lot.

Mario Blokland
Mario Blokland
19,750 Points

Great to hear! Keep it going :D

Trever Beets
Trever Beets
1,117 Points

I plan to i'm going to hopefully go from this to PHP and Ruby. altho i should probably finish the opening HTML course at some point.

Rashaad Prince
Rashaad Prince
7,129 Points

Great explanation Mario.

Mario Blokland
Mario Blokland
19,750 Points

Thanks Rashaad Prince. Glad that it helped you.

Chase Kolozsy
Chase Kolozsy
976 Points
Chase Kolozsy
Chase Kolozsy
976 Points

I had the same problem. It was really frustrating. I wasn't sure what the question was asking me to call help on.

help(str.what?!!!!!)

help(str)? no

help(methods)? no

help(methods.str)? no

help(str.methods)? no

help(str.help)? no

If the question was asked like this:

To get help for the method 'center' that also belongs to the str class, we would use_______

or if the question was asked like this:

To get help for the method: center, that also belongs to the str class, we would use_______

or if the question was asked like this:

To get help for the method, center, that also belongs to the str class, we would use_________

I would have immediately understood what I needed to do.

Sam Deacon
Sam Deacon
2,650 Points
Sam Deacon
Sam Deacon
2,650 Points

poorly worded question lol, took me forever to realise it was basically asking how do I look up str.center