IDE Python

[Harri Pesonen]

Lothar Scholz wrote:

>>reo = re.compile(r"#define\s+Py_None.*\n")
>>
>>it should know that reo is a regular expression object. It should try at 
>>least. :-) Simpler example:
>>
>>string.upper().
>>
>>and it shows nothing.
> 
> The first could be done as a heuristic. The second is not easily
> possible in an untyped language. And i guess no other IDE for any
> script language can do this. Maybe they can do it for a few standart
> functions but not in general.
> 
> Choosing python has advantages and disadvantages.

It is my understanding that Python is largely self-documenting. It has 
dir(), globals(), locals() etc. Why couldn't the editor compile and 
execute the source code in sandbox on the fly? It would then know the 
object types in most cases. By "in sandbox" I mean that it should not 
execute any operating system functions (file, network etc) but it should 
create the objects still.

Visual Basic has a very good intellisense. But it only works if you 
define the data types explicitly. Python should have an option to define 
the data type for variables... and "option explicit", which should be 
simple to implement.

Harri