Sublime Text - Python - Tooltips or Bubbles for Docstrings and Linting messages

Question

I've been testing using Sublime Text as a Python IDE, and there are two things I can't figure out how to do via settings or plugins, both related to tooltips / bubbles. I'm under the impression from comments I've seen about a (non-existent?) tooltip API that these features may not be possible at this time.

(1) The first is getting a popup of the docstring for a function, as in IPython (picture below). I know some autocompleters will fill in the autocomplete box with a list of arguments, or put something in the status bar, but I'm looking for something that pops up in place. (Or a documentation pane like Spyder's that automatically shows the documentation for the function you're on).

(2) The second is being able to get a tooltip of the lint error, as in Spyder. My mouse cursor disappeared from the screenshot, but it's hovering over the exclamation mark icon the gutter.

Answer 1

There is currently no tool tip API in ST, so the features you want are not available. I'm sure lots of plugin developers are hoping for this feature and if/when it's released, there will be a large number of updates to existing plugins to use the functionality.

Answer 2

This exists now in build >= 3070 of SublimeText 3. Plugins have already started using it. For Python, Anaconda is an example of a plugin with tooltips.