I think Eclipse has this with Java std lib. I believe you can search Object then go view the source of the Object class.
I want to be able to search for and view the source of something like list in Python.
In Pycharm, I can go to declaration of anything such as import os or c = ClassFromMyModule(), but with a dict or list, it's not the same.
I can't go to declaration of a literal or an operator. Such as:
d = {}
l = ['hello', 'there']
my_str = "hello there"
a = b + c
You can simply write something like:
x = list()
and then hit Ctrl and click on list. It will bring you to a file called builtins.py, but lists and dictionaries are builtins, these are usually implemented by the interpreter. So as a result these have no Python implementation, it will show you something like:
class list(object):
"""
list() -> new empty list
list(iterable) -> new list initialized from iterable's items
"""
def append(self, p_object): # real signature unknown; restored from __doc__
""" L.append(object) -> None -- append object to end """
pass
def clear(self): # real signature unknown; restored from __doc__
""" L.clear() -> None -- remove all items from L """
pass
# ...
So it is actually more a "virtual" class definition that is generated based on the documentation. The list object is not implemented in Python itself: it is an object implemented in the Python interpreter. This makes sense since it is impossible to implement a list (with fast random access) without having something like a list/array.
