On Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 5:22:25 AM UTC+8, cameron...@gmail.com wrote: > On 18Oct2021 01:43, Hongyi Zhao <hongy...@gmail.com> wrote: > >I've written the following python code snippet in pycharm: > >```python > >import numpy as np > >from numpy import pi, sin > > > >a = np.array([1], dtype=bool) > >if np.in|vert(a) == ~a: > > print('ok') > >``` > >When putting the point/cursor in the above code snippet at the position > >denoted by `|`, I would like to see information similar to that provided by > >`pycharm`, as shown in the following screenshots: > > > >https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11155854/137619512-674e0eda-7564-4e76-af86-04a194ebeb8e.png > > > >https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11155854/137619524-a0b584a3-1627-4612-ab1f-05ec1af67d55.png > > > > > >But I wonder if there are any other python packages/tools that can help > >me achieve this goal? > Broadly, you want the "inspect" module, which is part of the stdlib, > documented here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html > > It has many functions for extracting information about things, and you > want the signature() function to get the parameters and type annotations > of a function. > > def f(a): > ... > > sig = signature(f) > > You also want the function docstring for the help text, which is > "f.__doc__" in the example above. This is what gets printed by help(): > > >>> import numpy as np > >>> help(np.invert)
But the following doesn't work: In [4]: help(~) File "<ipython-input-4-2a4ba1e3ecdb>", line 1 help(~) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax > It may be that PyCharm has additional information about some libraries > allowing it to include a reference to the only documentation. > > Cheers, > Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list