Appendix C. Built-in Functions
Much of this appendix was taken from the Python Documentation Set, which can be found at www.python.org/doc/. The Python Documentation is Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Python Software Foundation; all rights reserved. More information can be found at http://docs.python.org/copyright.html. Version references reflect both CPython and Jython releases. In cases where versions refer to 2.3 or 2.4, assume that these functions were implemented in Jython 2.5.0 because there was no Jython 2.3 or 2.4.
Constructor Functions
Constructor functions are used to create objects of a given type.
Note
In Python, a type and its constructor function are the same thing. So you can use the type function, which we will discuss ...
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