Can I read blockchain's information from Electrum's python console?

Question

I wanted to use Electrum's python console, but the documentation just gives a few examples.
Is there a more complete documentation about python commands inside Electrum ?

Main tasks I currently want to do are blockchain reading, it includes :

• the current block height
  (it is in the GUI, in "tools" -> "network", but is there a CLI way to do it ?)
• informations about a given block, like POW and Merkle root
  (I don't know at all if there is a way to get them inside the console)
  (there is a file named ~/.electrum/blockchain_headers, but it's not human-readable).

Is there a way to do that ? (this is my main question)

(I'm currently using Electrum 3.3.8.)

Answer 1

You can get all the available commands with help(). This is not much of a help as it just lists all the commands without any other documentation. The full list of commands and arguments for those commands can be found in the commands.py file. For example, to get the current block height you can use getinfo()