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…

You can try the methodswith function.

For example, let’s say I create a set: A = {1,2,3,4,5} Now suppose I want to take one element off. Even without consulting the documentation, even if I’ve never used a set in Python before, I know that I can probably find what I need by just hitting A.<tab> and Jupyter will suggest all the useful …

Thanks, that is super helpful! [image] However it doesn’t seem to quite do what I’m looking for, depending on the level of type abstractness I think. For example, I had created a LightGraph.Graph and then added a node to it, and I was mentioning it was harder to find the add_nodes! function. Tryin…

[image] mboratko: It’s not entirely clear to me why. See the documentation of methodswith, in particular the supertypes keyword. Also, please don’t post screenshots, quote code instead .

Thanks. (I was posting screenshots specifically because I wanted to show the tab-completion drop-downs.)

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At some point I did a prototype of “tuple completion”, basically you would write the arguments of a method in parenthesis (e.g. (x, 1) where x is a Set) and on tab it would show you all the methods with that type signature, with (x,...) being equivalent to methodswith. Completion would then add the …

[image] mboratko: In addition, while it is useful, having to type out and run a separate command is not as convenient as simple tab-completion. Is there a package or plans to add this sort of “methodswith” functionality in some interactive way? Probably, in time. But keep in mind that this is…

True, some of this can be fixed with tooling. To some extent however it’s a result of the objects-don’t-have-methods approach that Julia takes. In Python, the tab-complete functionality provides a list of the methods attached to a given object, which can be seen as a curated subset of all possible …

A further thought: It is interesting that, in Python, tab-complete, method chaining, and (to some extent) conceptual order have played a role in guiding which functions people create as methods and which are created as standalone functions, with the result that typically these lists are short, easy-…

How to discover functions which apply to a given object?

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How to discover functions which apply to a given object?

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