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user249018
user249018

Reputation: 557

Shift Tab for showing the documentation of a command in Jupyter Notebook is not working

I have a problem in using the shortcut 'shift tab' in order to get more informations of the package or command I am typing in in a cell. I installed Jupyter notebook via anaconda very recently, I am using python 3.7 and Ubuntu 18.04.

Do you know how to fix this problem ? I googled a lot but could not find a solution.

Many thanks.

Upvotes: 12

Views: 40214

Answers (10)

Lauren Pennington
Lauren Pennington

Reputation: 51

Try FN + TAB first! Then, click out and click back and try SHIFT + TAB again.

Upvotes: 1

Tanishq Negi
Tanishq Negi

Reputation: 21

In the menu bar there is a little trust button just verify it is trusted if not then run Shift+Tab inside the parenthesis , it should work

Upvotes: 2

markmaksi
markmaksi

Reputation: 31

Run the import command on the library of which you're trying to see the docs then try the shift + tab and it should work just fi

Upvotes: 1

Kristo
Kristo

Reputation: 11

Run again your line of importing the libraries. Now, having loaded your modules you should be able to see the command documentation.

Upvotes: 1

silicon23
silicon23

Reputation: 88

On Google colab:

  • clicking on the function after running,
  • move the cursor away and then
  • bring the mouse and hover it over causes it to pop up.
  • Note: colab Tools | Settings | Editor | check Automatically trigger code inspection (first setting)

Upvotes: 0

Saurbh Thakare
Saurbh Thakare

Reputation: 1

Just Run the tab of your code Then bring your curser in the parenthesis and press shift + tab press shift + tab + tab for more info

Upvotes: 0

code_conundrum
code_conundrum

Reputation: 599

Follow two steps:

Step 1: Run that cell first (shift + enter)

Step 2: After running the cell, press the shift + tab.

It worked for me. I hope it will work for you too :)

Upvotes: 7

Shreya Mittal
Shreya Mittal

Reputation: 33

I also faced a similar problem but can you confirm that you imported the library in the jupyter notebook and then were calling one of the methods of the library?

What I observed is that if the library wasn't imported into the notebook then the documentation wasn't also showing using Shift+Tab. Once I imported it, then the shortcut was working to show the documentation.

Scenario 1:
import numpy as np #Pressed Enter for next line
a=np.random.randint #Shift + Tab not working

Scenario 2:
import numpy as np #Shift + Enter
a=np.random.randint #Shift + Tab working

Upvotes: 0

Salvador Pérez Viramontes
Salvador Pérez Viramontes

Reputation: 11

In the Google Colab environment, if fixed it as follows: Tools | Settings | Editor |uncheck Automatically trigger code inspection. Then, Tab and Shift-Tab worked as expected.

Upvotes: 1

Bala
Bala

Reputation: 41

Let's say you wrote the below code and trying to get the signature/documentation of function read_csv() with Shift+Tab (It may not work some times)

Code: import pandas as pd pd.read_csv()

-> First type only below code

pd.read_csv? ## Execute this code with Shift+Enter

-> Now when you type pd.read_csv and type Shift+Tab, this will show u signature/documentation... This is just a workaround...

Upvotes: 4

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