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I was wondering how the code completion of the PyCharm Python console works. The console enables executing Python code line by line. The lines are executed in the configured Python interpreter. OK, this is expected. But how does the code completion work?

Whenever the property "x" is called the message is printed. Getting code completion for "x" will execute the print statement. This can be confusing for the user, but is harmless compared to starting a long-running process or code which modifies the internal state.

I was wondering how the code completion of the PyCharm Python console works. The console enables executing Python code line by line. The lines are executed in the configured Python interpreter. OK, this is expected. But how does the code completion work?

Even the pydoc strings are extracted in this step to display them in the pop-up window of the quick documentation if desired. If you are interested in how this information is extracted, you can take a look for yourself: github.com/JetBrains/in...

I was wondering how the code completion of the PyCharm Python console works. The console enables executing Python code line by line. The lines are executed in the configured Python interpreter. OK, this is expected. But how does the code completion work?

Since my DataFrame viewer plugin also supports older versions of PyCharm, I took a look at the runtime code completion. Whenever the user triggers the code completion, the Python console fetches the required information from the Python interpreter.

I was wondering how the code completion of the PyCharm Python console works. The console enables executing Python code line by line. The lines are executed in the configured Python interpreter. OK, this is expected. But how does the code completion work?