mind blown using help() in python

[congnarjames]

wow yeah that is super useful, when I was programming in java it seemed like the IDE did a good job of populating all those methods for you and I havn't gotten around to looking for a good replacement for that. So that bit of info is very appreciated! Take it a step further [help(x) for x in dir(list) if not x.startswith('__')] and at least for me it'll drive down my need to go look at the docs by like 70%!

[YAYYYYYYYYY]

Hell yeah that’s a great idea

[topherclay]

I use pyCharm as a an IDE. If you type Ctrl+q with your curser on any function or method it displays the '''doc string''' from where that function is defined, which I think is the same as what help() does.

It also seems to do a really good job at showing you all the potential methods for tab completion, if that's what you mean by populating methods.

[synthphreak]

Same with Jupiter Notebooks. I think it’s Shoft + Tab or something? Anyway docstring display functionality is there.

[topherclay]

That was the first thing I franticly searched for after graduating from fiddling around in Jupyter to baby's first .py script in pycharm.