[IPython-dev] ShellChannel.object_info equivalent?

[Dino Viehland]

We use it to provide signature help inside of PTVS.  By breaking out the arguments we can highlight the current arg that the user is typing.  And we would display the doc string below the signature help.

If it was available under a separate mime type that'd be great and we'd start displaying it again.  For now we're just displaying the entire string which is a slightly degraded experience vs IPython 2 as well as our normal IDE experience.
________________________________
From: Thomas Kluyver<mailto:takowl at gmail.com>
Sent: ‎5/‎6/‎2015 9:49 AM
To: IPython developers list<mailto:ipython-dev at scipy.org>
Subject: Re: [IPython-dev] ShellChannel.object_info equivalent?

Hi Dino,

On 5 May 2015 at 13:06, Dino Viehland <dinov at microsoft.com<mailto:dinov at microsoft.com>> wrote:
Is there a new equivalent to ShellChannel.object_info in 3.0+?  I see that there’s now a KernelClient.inspect that seems similar but it doesn’t return the information at the same level of granularity – previously we’d get back the doc string, args, var args, var kw, and defaults.  Now it seems like the reply just includes a textual representation without any of the information broken out.

Is there any way to get the more detailed information?

No, object_info was replaced with inspect. We decided to replace the structured data with text because a lot of the structured data was defined in a Python specific way, and it would have been hard to make it all language agnostic. What are you trying to use it for? We may be able to work out another way to do it, or add back a limited amount of structured information.

Thanks,
Thomas
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/ipython-dev/attachments/20150507/3ddcb09f/attachment.html>