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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.