C-h f equivalent

[Chad Netzer]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 05:31, Glyn Millington wrote:

> Now when I want to put something together in elisp, in Xemacs all I have
> to do is C-h f and then feed in the function name and I get the goods on
> a particular function. C-h v does the same for variables.  Is there
> anything quite as handy as this in python which will tell me about
> functions, built-in variable etc

I HIGHLY recommend 'IPython' for this type of thing.  It greatly extends
the python interactive shell (among other things), to allow easy
introspection of objects, tab completion of attribute names, replay of
commands, etc.

http://www-hep.colorado.edu/~fperez/ipython/

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Chad Netzer
(any opinion expressed is my own and not NASA's or my employer's)