Or the author may have been aware of it, but decided not to include it. The Python tutorial teaches a good bit of the language, but it doesn't teach how to use

Or the author may have been aware of it, but decided not to include it. The Python tutorial teaches a good bit of the language, but it doesn't teach how to use it. You're on your own for figuring out good problems to solve to practice using it. It's more of a less thorough but less dry companion to the Language Reference and the Library Reference.