Spyder 4.0.0 Tool Tips

JoeBorgione

Having just upgraded to Pro 2.4.3 and then adding the Spyder 4.0.0 package, I was overwhelmed with tool tip windows while writing code in Spyder.  From this stack overflow post, here's how to suppress them if you too find them a little too helpful as I have....

 You need to go to the menu

Tools > Preferences > Completion and linting > Introspection

and deactivate the option called Enable hover hints.

DanPatterson_Retired

A couple of other tricks

1.  just give the mouse a quick 1 mm up stroke and the tool tip goes away

2.  If you don't want to read in the tooltip,  just click in the tooltip and it goes away, putting the help topic in the help area!  No more querying and dir-ing and help-ing to find out about stuff.

3   Don't hover

Need more help and even code??

Some modules and functions are well documented and provide losts of information

<SPAN class="keyword token">import</SPAN> numpy

numpy??


Type<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>        module
String form<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN> <SPAN class="operator token"><</SPAN>module <SPAN class="string token">'numpy'</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">from</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">'C:\\arc_pro\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3\\lib\\site-packages\\numpy\\__init__.py'</SPAN><SPAN class="operator token">></SPAN>
File<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>        c<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>\arc_pro\bin\python\envs\arcgispro<SPAN class="operator token">-</SPAN>py3\lib\site<SPAN class="operator token">-</SPAN>packages\numpy\__init__<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>py
Source<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>     
<SPAN class="string token">""</SPAN>"
NumPy
<SPAN class="operator token">==</SPAN><SPAN class="operator token">==</SPAN><SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN>

Provides
  <SPAN class="number token">1</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN> An array object of arbitrary homogeneous items
  <SPAN class="number token">2</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN> Fast mathematical operations over arrays
  <SPAN class="number token">3</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN> Linear Algebra<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> Fourier Transforms<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> Random Number Generation

How to use the documentation

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Others less so

arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>da<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>FeatureClassToNumPyArray??
Call signature<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN> arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>da<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>FeatureClassToNumPyArray<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="operator token">*</SPAN>args<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="operator token">**</SPAN>kwargs<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
Type<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>           funcInfo
String form<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>    <SPAN class="operator token"><</SPAN>da<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>funcInfo object at <SPAN class="number token">0x000002670557C738</SPAN><SPAN class="operator token">></SPAN>
Docstring<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>     
FeatureClassToNumPyArray<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>in_table<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> field_names<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> where_clause<SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN>None<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> spatial_reference<SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN>None<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> explode_to_points<SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN><SPAN class="token boolean">False</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> skip_nulls<SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN><SPAN class="token boolean">False</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> null_value<SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN>None<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> sql_clause<SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>None<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> None<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN> <SPAN class="operator token">-</SPAN><SPAN class="operator token">></SPAN> numpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>array

Load <SPAN class="operator token">and</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">return</SPAN> NumPyArray record object<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>

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