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?

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    82 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.