On 7/31/2014 6:41 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I'm working on tab completion for module names. I have some alpha-quality
code working, so if I hit TAB after typing "import ma" I get this:
py> import ma
macpath macurl2path mailbox mailcap mangle
markupbase math
This is an interesting idea for Idle. Idle currently completes names
from builtins and, in interactive mode, the current globals. So in the
situation above, Idle offers 'map' and 'max' in a listbox with all
builtins (and globals). But after '.', it completes attribute names
instead and within strings, filenames, starting from the current
directory of the user process for relative names.
It should not be too hard to recognize 'import' and 'from' instead of or
in addition to '.' as context markers. Even just offering stdlib name
(or current directory names or . imports) would be a help. Builtin
names can never be correct in this context.
For what it's worth, importing "mangle" fails with a SyntaxError. But
that's okay, I don't expect tab completion to only show *valid*
modules :-)
Over the next few days I'll make an official announcement, but if anyone
wants a sneak-peek, check out:
http://code.google.com/p/tabhistory/source/browse/tabhistory.py
where I have indenting, code completion, filename completion, and module
completion all working to some degree or another.
Thanks to everyone for their help.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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