Why is 'go to definition' not working in Spyder?

Question

I have installed Python using anaconda and I am using the Spyder editor on Mac. I wanna be able to access the function definitions when I right click on a python built in function and click go to definition. Right now I get nothing.How do I do this? Am I missing the libraries or there is some settings? Thanks!

Answer 1

when I right click on a python built in function

Those are written in C. Spyder has no Python source code to jump to. It would need access to the C source code and a way to automatically determine where in the C the relevant implementation is, and I don't think it has either of those things.

You'll have to find them in the C source code repository, probably in Python/bltinmodule.c or under Objects