All language subtitles for 11. Type Attributes

OK.
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So you know strings, you know floats, you know integers, you know lists.
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OK.
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So you know data types.
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But how can you actually do something in Python?
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What can you do with these data types?
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Well to answer your question you should look at the dir command.
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Well let me now start to use the Python shell a little bit more to do things quicker.
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So I'm going to split this into two.
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This is for executing the Python file.
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This is for the interactive Python shell.
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So what can we do with lists?
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You can find that out by doing dir.
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Dir is a function in Python that will give you
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all the things you can do with a specific type.
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So with a list in this case, all these here are attributes of a list, you can do the same for checking int.
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You can do the same for checking floats, dr float, dir str.
For example let's stop at str before
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we go to lists, with a string you can do for example, you can turn them into uppercase using these method.
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To find out what upper does you want to use
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help str, that is the type that has the attributes upper.
Now attributes are all these, and they can be
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either methods or properties.
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You do know that until you check with help.
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So that is the help documentation for the upper method.
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It's a method as you can see here. Q to quit and go back to the shell and then let's go ahead and use
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that.
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"hello"
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dot upper, you use the method with round brackets,
with parentheses and that's with the return
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the capitalized version of "HELLO". If we used title instead that will capitalize the first letter only.
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Of course you can use variables
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and you get the same output.
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Now what do we have for lists?
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How about calculating the average of the student grades?
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Let's do that in the next video.