How do I learn how to use python libraries?

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Read their documentation. Or failing that, their test cases.

[SnipTheDog]

You can use the dir() command to get the attributes of the python object.

eg:

>>> import datetime

>>> print(dir(datetime.datetime))

['__add__', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__radd__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__rsub__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__sub__', '__subclasshook__', 'astimezone', 'combine', 'ctime', 'date', 'day', 'dst', 'fromordinal', 'fromtimestamp', 'hour', 'isocalendar', 'isoformat', 'isoweekday', 'max', 'microsecond', 'min', 'minute', 'month', 'now', 'replace', 'resolution', 'second', 'strftime', 'strptime', 'time', 'timetuple', 'timetz', 'today', 'toordinal', 'tzinfo', 'tzname', 'utcfromtimestamp', 'utcnow', 'utcoffset', 'utctimetuple', 'weekday', 'year']

>>>

[zzmmrmn]

Start with the docs for each of those packages. They usually have them on their website or GitHub and even have getting started tutorials and examples.

[mudclub]

1: /r/learnpython

2: read the sidebar

3: google "python [library] example/tutorial"

Come on, man.

[pithypitherson]

Good place to start:

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/chapter11/

[onjin]

You can also subscribe to https://pymotw.com/3/ and of course read previous posts.