py-complete help

[Dustin Lee]

Seems like py-complete.el offers some cool features, if I could only
get it to work.

>From the file

;;   1. hippie-expand support via try-complete-py-complete-symbol,
;;   just like the lisp-version, nice for the [S-tab] hungry.
What do I need to do to get this to work?  I have hippie-expand mapped
to F7 (not S-tab) but I'm not sure how I can get hippie to "know"
about the above complete function

;;
;;   2. minibuffer-complete, pressing [M-return] brings up a
;;   minibuffer completion of the expression before point, usefull if
;;   you want to get an overview of your options.
Nothing happens when I press M-return

;;
;;  3. pressing [f1] brings up help on a python symbol before point
;;  (just what help(thingy) gives
if i try this after anything (e.g. "time")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'time' is not defined

;;
;;  4. pressing "(" tries to parse the preceeding tokens as a funtion
;;  or method, and retrieve the signature via the inspect module, and
;;  messages it to you
after time.time

py-complete: waiting for python prompt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'time' is not defined

;;
;;   5. pressing "," shows last signature.
;;
;;      (4+5) is great for calling functions like:
;;
;;         string.join
;;
;;      where I can never remember whether it's the list or seperator first
pretty much same as above

;;
;;   6. tries to work for both py-execute-buffer and
;;   py-execute-import-or-reload oriented work-styles. Feel free to
;;   suggest improvements, or to just improve the code yourself.

Hmm.... Ok, I'm lame.  What does this mean?


Thanks,

dustin

ps.  I've been googling around but haven't found a great one stop
shopping resource for "power" programming techniques for python in
emacs.  Any suggestions?

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Dustin Lee
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