PyCharm dir() not displaying output

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PyCharm dir() not displaying output - bodisha - Nov-17-2021

Trying to figure out Python and PyCharms isn't acting how I'm expecting it too.... and the dir() function isn't producing any output for me. When I run the following in PyCharms

import yfinance
dir(yfinance)

All I receive is the following without displaying the output I was expecting

Output:
Process finished with exit code 0

But when I run the same thing from the python console in Powershell it works and I receive

Output:
['Ticker', 'Tickers', '__all__', '__author__', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__', '__version__', 'base', 'download', 'multi', 'pdr_override', 'shared', 'ticker', 'tickers', 'utils', 'version']

I'm running

Windows 10
Python 3.9.8
Pycharms 2021.2.3 (Community Edition)
yfinance 0.1.64

Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong would be appreciated! Thanks

RE: PyCharm dir() not displaying output - Larz60+ - Nov-18-2021

when in your shell, output is directed to stdout, thus you see the list.
when in a script, you have to direct where you want the output to go.
thus changing line 2 to print(dir(yfinance)) will show the output of the dir statement.
you could also save it in a variable, like this:

import yfinance
yfin = dir(yfinance)
print(yfin)

RE: PyCharm dir() not displaying output - bodisha - Nov-21-2021

Worked like a charm... thank you!