Suggesting methods with similar names

[bearophileHUGS at lycos.com]

I have a class Surface with many methods. Working in the interactive
window I receive an error like this when I write the wrong method name:

>>> table.addGlas()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'Surface' object has no attribute 'addGlas'

Is it possibile to make the object give a better answer: a short list
of few method names similar to the one I've misspelled?

I've found some modules with phonetic algorithms like soundex,
metaphone, etc, for example here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/advas/

I can produce the list of method names with this:
toRemove = """__delattr__ __dict__ __getattribute__ __module__ __new__
           __reduce__ __copy__ __reduce_ex__ __setattr__ __slot__
           __weakref__ __str__ __class__ __doc__""".split()
methods = sorted( set(dir(Surface)).difference(toRemove) )

The problem is calling the phonetic algorithm to show a ranked list of
the 2-4 method names most similar to the wrong one called. I don't know
if this problem requires a change in the python shell, or in the
metaclass of that Surface class, etc.
And in the end maybe this functionality (inspired by a similar
Mathematica one) is already inside IPython :-]

Bye,
Bearophile