Object Explorer Options for Identifier Sorting

[PhilipYip1988]

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Object Explorer Sort Identifiers by Column

The Object Explorer lacks some options to sort identifiers.

If a variable is viewed with the object explorer:

There is a Type column and a Callable column. The column title cannot be selected to group the identifiers by this column:

For example selecting Callable should show the identifiers grouped in the following order:

False:

• denominator
• imag
• numerator
• real

True:

• as_integer_ratio
• bit_count
• bit_length
• conjugate
• from_bytes
• to_bytes

Selecting Type should group them by:

builtin_function_or_method:

• as_integer_ratio
• bit_count
• bit_length
• conjugate
• from_bytes
• to_bytes

int:

• denominator
• imag
• numerator
• real

Properties Button

The Callable button toggles whether Callable identifiers are shown or not:

This gives a way of showing only non-callable attributes however it does not give a way of only showing callable attributes. It might be good to have a P button here giving the option to display non-callable Properties. So for example if P was toggle off and C was toggled on, the following would show:

• as_integer_ratio
• bit_count
• bit_length
• conjugate
• from_bytes
• to_bytes

The Datamodel button toggles whether Datamodel identifiers are shown or not:

Identifiers are shown alphabetically so these can easily be viewed separately by scrolling.

Additional Option to Group Classes and Modules

If in the Spyder preferences, Exclude callable and modules is selected:

Then something like pandas can be inspected:

This has classes and modules:

When grouped by Callable it might be useful to have an option to group modules below the other Properties and to group classes below the other Callables. However this option couldn't be selected by just clicking the column title and would require an additional setting.

Additional Option to Group Callable by Behaviour

Another useful option for Callables would be to group by behaviour i.e. immutable or mutable. For example in the list:

Immutable Callable:

• copy
• count
• index

Mutable Callable:

• append
• clear
• extend
• insert
• pop
• remove
• reverse
• sort

Use Object Explorer Setting for Script Editor

It would also be useful to have the ability to apply the Object Explorer Setting to the Script Editor:

For example:

• Properties
• Modules
• Callables
• Classes

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Versions

• Spyder version: 6.0.0a5 (conda)
• Python version: 3.11.9 64-bit
• Qt version: 5.15.8
• PyQt5 version: 5.15.9
• Operating System: Windows-10-10.0.22631-SP0

Dependencies

# Mandatory:
atomicwrites >=1.2.0              :  1.4.1 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0                   :  5.2.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0               :  3.0.0 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0              :  2.6.0 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111       :  20230430 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2              :  3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=8.13.0,<9.0.0,!=8.17.1  :  8.22.2 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2,<0.20.0             :  0.19.1 (OK)
jellyfish >=0.7                   :  1.0.3 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0                :  4.22.0 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0                  :  25.2.0 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0                   :  7.16.4 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0                  :  1.7.0 (OK)
paramiko >=2.4.0                  :  3.4.0 (OK)
parso >=0.7.0,<0.9.0              :  0.8.4 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0                   :  4.9.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4                 :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                      :  5.9.8 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                    :  2.18.0 (OK)
pylint >=3.1,<4                   :  3.1.0 (OK)
pylint_venv >=3.0.2               :  3.0.3 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.4.0               :  0.4.0 (OK)
pylsp >=1.11.0,<1.12.0            :  1.11.0 (OK)
pylsp_black >=2.0.0,<3.0.0        :  2.0.0 (OK)
pyuca >=1.2                       :  1.2 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=3.2.0,<3.3.0         :  3.2.3 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.2.2                 :  0.2.3 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.3.1,<1.4.0          :  1.3.1 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.5.1,<5.6.0          :  5.5.2 (OK)
qtpy >=2.4.0                      :  2.4.1 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7                     :  1.2.0 (OK)
setuptools >=49.6.0               :  69.5.1 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                    :  7.3.7 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=3.0.0b5,<3.0.0b6 :  3.0.0b5 (OK)
superqt >=0.6.1,<1.0.0            :  0.6.4 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0              :  4.6.2 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1               :  0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3                 :  4.0.0 (OK)
zmq >=24.0.0                      :  26.0.3 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                     :  3.0.10 (OK)
matplotlib >=3.0.0                :  3.8.4 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                       :  1.26.4 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1                    :  2.2.2 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                    :  1.13.0 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                     :  1.12 (OK)

[ccordoba12]

Hey @PhilipYip1988, thanks for reporting and the detailed description of your feature request.

Unfortunately, we lack the manpower to implement it at the moment. But I'll leave it open in case someone wants to take a look at it.