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Nastia Usp
Courses Plus Student 1,076 PointsWhen I type help(range) I get a lot of methods associated with range defined like __eq__. How to try them out?
What syntax is right to trying out these methods?
1 Answer
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherYou can just call them, range(10).__eq__(range(10)) (since __eq__() takes a second item to compare the item it's called on with). Under the hood, this is what Python is actually doing when you dorange(10) == range(10). The==triggers therangeclass'seq` method. We'll be going into some of this in the next course, actually.
Generally, though, methods that start and end with __ are not meant to be called by your code. Python uses them internally for special features in the language, like comparison or printing or instantiation.