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I'll commonly be writing in a jupyter notebook and need a function signature/docstring, so I'll do something like type out print() and then with the cursor between the parentheses press shift+tab. Is there something comparable in pycharm?

I have General-Code Completion settings on, and as I'm typing "print" in pycharm it will show me the signature, but as soon as I type the opening parenthesis the signature/docs go away. I find myself often writing the function name, looking at the doc, then writing the () and maybe one arg, before having to go to a newline or something and rewrite the function name so I get the docstring again. What is a better workflow for this?

EDIT: Based on feedback, some extra images are below. ctrl+space was suggested, but that isn't giving me what I'm hoping for.

If I type the function name without parentheses, I see this: enter image description here

which is perfect. But when I hit left parenthesis the description goes away, and if I hit ctrl+space as suggested I get: enter image description here

after one ctrl+space, and: enter image description here after two ctrl+space. Clearly both aren't the same, they're offering auto complete for other things. Is there some setting I need to change?

Also, ctrl+P doesn't do anything for me - maybe I unbound the default at some point?

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I believe Ctrl+Q is what you were after? (Most likely you would have found it by now though :))

Type in a function and within parenthesis press Ctrl+Q and it will show you the method's documentation.

factorThis
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While in the parenthesis press Ctrl + Space and you would get all the related suggestions.

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    I've added some detail to the post addressing this. Ctrl+P and Ctrl+Space don't seem to do it. I should also say I'm on mac which can change things a little, but I think I'm still using the equivalent binding. – Andrew Mar 22 '19 at 20:24
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    I'm unsure as I never use mac but try Ctrl+alt+Space – Obaid Ur Rehman Mar 23 '19 at 15:34
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    I've been testing everything on my windows machine too just in case (if I see it working on windows, I can look up the command to map on mac). ctrl+alt+space doesn't do it either, it offers me auto complete options that are the same as ctrl+space twice. What is bound to your ctrl+alt+space, maybe it isn't the default command? – Andrew Mar 23 '19 at 15:37
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    Can you upload a screenshot of what Shift+tab in Jupyter's does ? – Obaid Ur Rehman Mar 24 '19 at 09:00
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It does not exist. I know people like PyCharm, but I cannot figure out why when features like this are missing. So many other pluses to PyCharm, but this missing one hurts. The workaround is not close to an efficient workflow.

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enter image description here

I think this is what you are looking for, Press CTRL+j in parenthesis for mac. Please wait for 2 sec to load.

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Vicky Patil
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Try cmd + B on the function and it takes you to the function location that you are trying to inspect. Not quite like the Jupyter shift + tab but gets the job done

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Hit F1 once you're in the parentheses

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