input(promptbool(thinglen(thingfloat(thingopen(filenamemodeint(thingprint(lineiter(listtype(thinglist(thingord(charrange(fromtostridechr(numberstr(thingnot that many"the python way" if it is appropriate to an objectmake it method of that object this is the complete set of python functions that we have met to date actually it' surprising how few there arenot how many python' philosophy leads to functions that only make sense for particular sort of object being methods of that objectnot free-standing functions we are now going to write our own functions