Suggesting method names based on a wrong method name can be useful, but I think the "smart help" can be improved: it can also be useful to have a suggestion for method names on the basis on a short description (or keywords) about what I want to do to/with the object. Maybe some people here can give me some suggestions on how to do this.
I think I can add a Keywords: xxxx, xxx, xxxx. final part to each docstring of the methods, so a kind of little search engine can search for the few most fitting methods based on the user text search query, and on the methods keywords+doc texts. User query example: "How to rotate the object" Result (a short ranked list of method names that can perform that operation): rotate, flip, pivot, mirror (Note: the query is inserted calling a "help" method, or something similar, etc. It doesn't require any magic.) Do you know any little search engine that can be used for this purpose? Thank you, Bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
