Docstring on bottom panel (Shift+Tab 4x) not showing

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I recall that Shift+Tab: View the docstring for a function. Hit Shift+Tab three more times to open the docstring in a new pane. Is the Shift+Tab 4x no longer pulling up the docstring on a new bottom panel?

I found reference on this at this website: Most useful keyboard shortcuts for Notebook & Lab

Below are my packages and versions:

IPython : 8.15.0
ipykernel : 6.28.0
ipywidgets : 8.1.3
jupyter_client : 8.6.0
jupyter_core : 5.7.2
jupyter_server : 2.14.1
jupyterlab : 4.2.3
nbclient : 0.8.0
nbconvert : not installed
nbformat : 5.10.4
notebook : 7.2.1
qtconsole : 5.5.2
traitlets : 5.14.3

I’ve tried to update all the packages to the latest version.

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The key is:

I think you are looking for this discussion ‘Show documentation tooltips as in jupyter notebook 6.*’ and follow-up? Unfortunately, that post doesn’t link to the related, posted issue report at the conclusion, but you can find it here.

For insight, Jupyter Notebook 7+ is built on JupyterLab components and so a lot of the features and abilities match JupyterLab now, which is said in relation to this specific topic in the bottom of this related issue post ’ Open the help in a bottom panel #6692’ and includes related images that illustrate the situation you are stating in your post:

“Jupyter Notebook 7 does the same as JupyterLab since it uses the same notebook component:”

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Thank you for the information. Downgrading it back to 6.x.x brought it back.

Hopefully, this feature will be implemented in the next update.

This is one feature that stopped me from using jupyterlab previously. Guess I’ll be sticking with version 6.x.x until the new version has it implemented.

Thank you again for your insight on the issue.

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Another thing to consider is that there is NbClassic. From the NbClassic repository:

“NbClassic provides a backwards compatible Jupyter Notebook interface that you can install side-by-side with the latest versions: That way, you can fearlessly upgrade without worrying about your classic extensions and customizations breaking.
How does it work?
Because NbClassic provides the classic interface on top of the new Jupyter Server backend, it can coexist with other frontends like JupyterLab and Notebook 7 in the same installation. NbClassic preserves the custom classic notebook experience under a new set of URL endpoints, under the namespace /nbclassic/.”

For more about this, see 'Jupyter Notebook 6.5.0 Release Candidate has two sections right near the start ‘Notebook 6 vs Notebook 7’ and ‘NbClassic’ that you mat want to examine.

For those finding this thread & trying to place this all in context, you may want to look at Announcing Jupyter Notebook 7

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