When we are in IPython's pylab mode ($ ipython –pylab
), we can open manual pages for NumPy functions with the help
command. It is not necessary to know the name of a function. We can type a few characters and then let tab completion do its work. Let's, for instance, browse the available information for the arange()
function.
We can browse the available information in either of the following two ways:
help
command. Type in a few characters of the function and press the Tab key.help
, for example:In [3]: arange?
Tab completion is dependent on readline
, so you need to make sure that it is installed. It can be installed with setuptools
with one of the following commands:
$ easy_install readline $ pip install readline
18.117.74.231