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Is it possible to have autocomplete in a notebook in Google Colab?

By autocomplete I mean having something like Intellisense in VS Code by which I can see available functions or members in a particular library?

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user3079474 Avatar asked Sep 21 '18 07:09

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Yup. Press control space (or command space, on a Mac) and autocomplete suggestions will appear.

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Bob Smith Avatar answered Sep 24 '22 00:09

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If you navigate to Settings... and then uncheck "Automatically trigger code completions":

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...you'll then be able to use tab-to-complete like in a conventional Jupyter notebook. From the Keyboard Shortcuts page of the Colaboratory app:

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j6m8 Avatar answered Sep 25 '22 00:09

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