[Pythonmac-SIG] Auto-completion Editor for OS X

[Glenn Andreas]

At 11:09 AM +0200 6/25/04, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>On 25-jun-04, at 5:05, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>>It's not that hard to (naively) implement.  I think that 
>>PyInterpreter in the PyObjC Examples does this.  If it doesn't, 
>>then someone let me know and I'll try and find my local version 
>>that does :)
>
>That example should do completion, but it's not an editor ;-)
>
>Ronald
>>
>>On Jun 24, 2004, at 11:17 AM, Tony McDonald wrote:
>>
>>>I *think* that PyOxide can do this...


PyOXIDE does auto-completion for both the interpreters and the 
editors (and uses an XCode style UI for it as well).

Both work in similar, but not identical fashions.  The interpreter 
window looks in locals()/globals() (based on the existing 
auto-complete module), while the editor  windows try this if possible 
(if you've run the script before, or done something similar somewhere 
else) but it will also try to look through the code for matching 
symbols.

Needless to say, this works better for the intepreter since that has 
more context (but there's currently a bug in the interpreter windows 
that cause the autocompletion to include more than it should).  Call 
tips works similarly (again, the editor can parse out function 
declarations where possible).

Regardless, due to the dynamic nature of python, function completion 
in an editor is difficult to provide anything terribly useful in many 
cases (after all, if "foo" is a parameter to a function, where would 
you look to complete "foo."?)

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