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Enrica Fedeli-Jaques
6,773 Pointswhat do "to be on strings" and "to be on lists" mean
Hi, I don't understand what the two mean. And what it means that we look for the method in a place or the other? thanks a lot!
2 Answers
Enrica Fedeli-Jaques
6,773 PointsHi Steven, thank you for your reply. the video is https://teamtreehouse.com/library/split-and-join and the minute 3.30 . apologies I thought the question was posted under the video and was self-explanatory :)
Steven Parker
229,732 PointsI saw the question while browsing the forum, odd that it didn't create a link button to the video since it listed it on the video.
But what he's talking about the objects that certain methods belong to. When he says "to be on strings", he means the method ("join" in this case) is a string method. So when using the "dot" syntax you would apply this method to a string. A method "on lists" would be one that you would apply with dot syntax to a list.
Examples:
", ".join(names) # the "join" method is used "on strings"
names.sort() # and the "sort" method is used "on lists"
Steven Parker
229,732 PointsSteven Parker
229,732 PointsIt would help to see what context these phrases are used in. Can you provide a link to the course page, and time indexes if they are in a video?