Comment by alkh | Hacker News Reader

Comment by alkh | Hacker News Reader

It important to remind everyone that you can already do something similar via the build-in function help(). For example, if I run help({1}) I get the documentation for a set, running help(set.add) gives the documentation for the add() method, etc. You can even preview objects that you haven't imported by using strings(ex. running help('numpy.ndarray') will correctly give you the documentation, provided numpy is installed in your current python environment). It's pretty helpful and doesn't require installing anything extra

You're completely right. `dir()` does the same in terms of functionality. In fact, my tool makes use of `dir` under the hood. I just wanted to make it more readable, and to combine `dir`, `type`, `repr`, `len`, `inspect`, etc. into one easily accessible place.

even just

  print(name.__doc__)

works for many kinds of names in Python.

Also most advanced IDE's do this better and lot more to troubleshoot/debug.

help says too much, usually you'd like a quick overview slightly formatted and well classified, which is what wat seems to afford here

And vars().

and the dir() built-in Python function.

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