You might have a question bugging you: “Why on Earth do we have both functions and methods, when they practically do the same thing?”
Firstly, let's start with the obvious. There is a clear difference in the syntax:
A function looks like this: function(something)
And a method looks like this: something.method()
Namely: a method always belongs to an object (e.g., in the x.index(2) method, .index() needed the x object to be applicable), while a function doesn’t necessarily depend on a Python object..
All methods are functions, but not all functions are methods!
If this makes no sense to you (yet), don’t you worry. I promise, the idea will grow on you as you use Python more and more – especially when you start to define your own functions and methods.
Class Sessions
1- Data Science Fundamentals
2- Problems Data Science Can Solve
3- The Data Science Process
4- What is Python?
5- Get Started with Google Colab
6- Comments in Python
7- Operators in Python
8- Variables in Python
9- Input and Output in Python
10- Data Structures & Data Types in Python
11- Strings
12- Introduction & Implementation of List in Python
13- Introduction & Implementation of Tuple in Python
14- Introduction & Implementation of Dictionary in Python
15- Inbuilt Functions
16- Define functions in Python
17- Methods in Python
18- Difference between functions and methods
19- Packages in Python
20- Python Notebook