Translations:Manual:A gentle introduction/17/en

As soon as you press Enter our new document will be created. This is similar to pressing the "new document" button on the toolbar. In Python, the dot is used to indicate something that is contained inside something else (newDocument is a function that is inside the FreeCAD module). The window that pops up therefore shows you everything that is contained inside "FreeCAD". If you would add a dot after newDocument, instead of the parentheses, it would show you everything that is contained inside the newDocument function. The parentheses are mandatory when you are calling a Python function, such as this one. We will illustrate that better below.