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API suggestions / notes not popping up while I code
Mark Cochran
edited

Hello all,
I'm new to quantopian and in the process of learning. I seem to remember little text boxes popping up as a wrote code in the IDE that offered brief guidelines on what I'm writing. For example, if I wrote

def handle_data(context,data):
hist = data.history(context.aapl, 'price',

a box would pop up saying:
"history(asset, fields, bar_count, frequency) get a window of values for the given field(s) and given asset(s). Learn more"

below the cursor. This was very helpful and it doesn't happen anymore. How do I bring this function back?

Thanks!!!

2 responses
Eric Novinson

Think the box appears when you add the period after data. Deleting the period and typing it in again should get the box to show up.

Mark Cochran

I appreciate the input. It ended up being a problem with my browser I think. In any case, I updated the browser and it functioned again.

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