This is, at it’s heart, a question related to user experience, particular with an eye toward rapid prototyping. For me, one of the things which makes Python so great for rapid prototyping is the ability to easily discover functionality without digging through the source code or the documentation. I…

How to discover functions which apply to a given object?

Tamas_Papp February 22, 2019, 5:42pm 5

See the documentation of methodswith, in particular the supertypes keyword.

Also, please don’t post screenshots, quote code instead.

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