[Python-3000] Minor addition to Python interactive shell...

[Abdallah El Guindy]

I believe there must be a way... Maybe by creating an index file for each
module. I'm not sure, but I think the number of packages on apt-get is much
more than the number of python built-in modules (obviously I don't know
their number), yet it is doable with the case of apt-get.

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Benjamin Peterson <
musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Abdallah El Guindy
> <abdallah.elguindy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey all
> >
> > I know that the feature I am about to suggest may be minor and may have a
> > very low priority considering other issues to be discussed, however I'll
> > suggest it anyways..
> >
> > Being a very frequent user of the interactive shell, I find it annoying
> when
> > I try to use a function or a class that resides in another module that I
> > haven't imported... So why not let the interactive shell say a message
> about
> > the appropriate module to be imported for this class/function.. The idea
> is
> > similar to bash on Ubuntu, if you don't have the necessary package it
> lets
> > you know by suggesting the package name to be installed.
>
> How would that be implemented? At the least, every module and package
> on sys.path would have to be scanned.
> >
> > Let me know what you think.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
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> Cheers,
> Benjamin Peterson
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