I'm looking through some houdini python tutorials and in one of the videos the when the person starts typing it displays some hints on what python expects, for example assigning n to a node in the scene, in the video as soon as he types “n.name()” or something a yellow windows pops up showing what parameters it expects.

When I try this I don't get any window popups, I checked preferences and I have all the options enabled specifically “context sensitive popup help”.

Any ideas?

thanks

This has been broken for quite a while now. Please submit a bug though so you'll know if/when it ever gets fixed, as well to register interest in actually getting it fixed.

ok thanks for confirming that graham, I will do that.
It's too bad, it makes learning houdini's python easier but there's always the help() method and reference manual as a backup.