Based on the demo recent_questions.py example, I am using the following code to retrieve the 10 most recent questions at the command line:

so = stackexchange.Site(stackexchange.StackOverflow)
questions = so.recent_questions(pagesize=10)
for q in questions:
    print "question retrieved:", q.title.encode('ascii', 'ignore'), "\t", q.id
    ...

As you can see I am displaying the title and id attributes of each question object.

My question has 2 parts:

1. How can I get a list of attributes to each method (such as recent_questions)? I simply guessed correctly that id would work, but it does not seem to be listed when I refer to >>> help(stackexchange)
2. I would like to extend my script to 'star' (mark as 'favourite') some questions that grab my interest. Is this a reasonable prospect? Is there a method/attribute for this, and in which class? Most importantly, is authentication even possible via the API? This would presumably be necessary in order to 'star' questions.

Based on the demo recent_questions.py example, I am using the following code to retrieve the 10 most recent questions at the command line:

so = stackexchange.Site(stackexchange.StackOverflow)
questions = so.recent_questions(pagesize=10)
for q in questions:
    print "question retrieved:", q.title.encode('ascii', 'ignore'), "\t", q.id
    ...

As you can see I am displaying the title and id attributes of each question object.

My question has 2 parts:

1. How can I get a list of attributes to each method (such as recent_questions)? I simply guessed correctly that id would work, but it does not seem to be listed when I refer to >>> help(stackexchange)
2. I would like to extend my script to mark as 'starred' ('favourite') some questions that grab my interest. Is this a reasonable prospect? Is there a method/attribute for this, and in which class? Most importantly, is authentication even possible via the API? This would presumably be necessary in order to 'star' questions.