Just started learning python - question about types of statements.

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Learn Programming@programming.dev · 4 months ago

Just started as in, I’m about an hour into a 4 hour intro video. Seeing two basic ways of manipulating things and don’t understand the difference.

If I want to know the length of a string and I just guess at how to do it I would try one of these two things,

Len(string)
string.len()

What is the difference between these types of statements? How do I think about this to know which one I should expect to work?

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