Getting method help, while using Eclipse Pydev

Question

I wonder, using Eclipse's PyDev plugin, how come documentation does not always show up?

Compared with

Is there a way to set Eclipse to "always show modules available along with the help attached"?

Answer 1

The problem is that depending on each context, the PyDev type inference engine may know or not what you're talking about... In the first situation it knows you're dealing with a string and thus can show you things properly. In the second, word is probably some parameter, so, it can't really find swapcase properly -- although it should work if you did an assert isinstance(word, str).