WRT to self-documenting. VS Code and Atom aren't self-documenting like Emacs might have something to do with the language itself. There's just no equivalent of

WRT to self-documenting. VS Code and Atom aren't self-documenting like Emacs might have something to do with the language itself. There's just no equivalent of ELISP's powerful introspection mechanism that allows you to fish out the docstring in one simple function call. However, Python does, and it's not even a function call, it's just a property access. Have you tried Sublime?