<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hey,</div><div><br></div><div>I just posted a new PR for annotation based custom tab completion. <a href="https://github.com/ipython/ipython/pull/2701">https://github.com/ipython/ipython/pull/2701</a></div><div><br></div><div>The code is fairly complex (~1000 new lines), so I assume that there are bugs. For that reason (and because its fun!), I encourage people</div><div>to try taking it out for a spin.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>It lets you do things like this:</div><div><pre style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 6px 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); line-height: 19px; overflow: auto; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 12px; font-family: Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; background-color: transparent; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; white-space: pre; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">In [1]: from IPython.extensions.completion import tab_complete, globs_to, literal
In [2]: @tab_complete
...: def baz(x) -> str:
...: pass
...:
In [3]: baz(notevaluated).<TAB>
.capitalize .find .isspace .partition .rstrip .translate
.center .format .istitle .replace .split .upper
.count .index .isupper .rfind .splitlines .zfill
.decode .isalnum .join .rindex .startswith
.encode .isalpha .ljust .rjust .strip
.endswith .isdigit .lower .rpartition .swapcase
.expandtabs .islower .lstrip .rsplit .title</code></pre><div><br></div></div><div>And this:</div><div><pre style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 6px 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); line-height: 19px; overflow: auto; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 12px; font-family: Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; background-color: transparent; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; white-space: pre; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">In [4]: @tab_complete
...: def foo(x : globs_to('*.txt'), mode : literal('r', 'w')):
...: pass
...:
In [5]: foo(<TAB>
'COPYING.txt' 'dist/' 'setupext/'
'IPython/' 'docs/' 'tools/'
'__pycache__/' 'ipython.egg-info/'
'build/' 'scripts/'
In[6]: foo('COPYING.txt', <TAB>
'r', 'w'</code></pre><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>-Robert</div></body></html>