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You are not overlooking a method list on that page: the core reference you linked currently shows the class descriptions/examples, but does not enumerate methods such as A practical way to see the available methods and signatures for your installed version is Python’s built-in documentation viewer. Run these in the environment containing python -m pydoc testcontainers.core.container.DockerContainer
python -m pydoc testcontainers.core.image.DockerImageOr inspect a particular method from Python: from testcontainers.core.container import DockerContainer
from testcontainers.core.image import DockerImage
help(DockerContainer.with_volume_mapping)
help(DockerImage)
For implementation details, the relevant source files are:
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You can navigate to definition with an ide, most methods are self
explanatory
…On Thu, Nov 5, 2026, 5:47 PM kokoc30 ***@***.***> wrote:
You are not overlooking a method list on that page: the core reference
you linked
<https://testcontainers-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/core/README.html>
currently shows the class descriptions/examples, but does not enumerate
methods such as with_volume_mapping.
A practical way to see the available methods and signatures *for your
installed version* is Python’s built-in documentation viewer. Run these
in the environment containing testcontainers:
python -m pydoc testcontainers.core.container.DockerContainer
python -m pydoc testcontainers.core.image.DockerImage
Or inspect a particular method from Python:
from testcontainers.core.container import DockerContainerfrom testcontainers.core.image import DockerImage
help(DockerContainer.with_volume_mapping)help(DockerImage)
pydoc <https://docs.python.org/3/library/pydoc.html> displays the
members/signatures and any docstrings present. It cannot supply
explanations that have not been written, but it avoids having to guess
which API exists in your installed release.
For implementation details, the relevant source files are:
- DockerContainer
<https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/blob/main/src/testcontainers/core/container.py>:
the current with_volume_mapping(host, container, mode="ro") stores a
host-path → container-path bind mount and returns self for chaining.
Configure it before starting the container. Use mode="rw" only when
the container should write to that host path.
- DockerImage
<https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/blob/main/src/testcontainers/core/image.py>:
entering its context calls build(); exiting calls remove(), whose
image cleanup depends on clean_up.
Those links track main; select the tag matching your installed release
when checking version-specific behavior. This gives you a usable method
reference now, although it does not replace the missing per-method prose in
the published page.
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The documentation for the
DockerContainerandDockerImageclasses is rather simplistic, with no method documented (likewith_volume_mapping, etc...). Are we supposed to look at the source code ? Are you planning to write more detailed documentation ? Am I missing something ?All reactions