Re: [PyCrust] FW: underscore kills command completion

[Neil H. <ne...@sc...>]

Patrick K. O'Brien:

> I'm seeing this same problem in Pythoncard with Python 2.2 using the
"Proof"
> application. But it isn't consistent. For example, the following worked:
>
> >>> bg.DLG_SZE
>
> but this failed to match:
>
> >>> bg.on_
>
> The following also worked:
>
> >>> os.stat_result
>
> Those "on_" methods don't seem to want to match. I have no idea why.

    Replace the current sorting in getAttributeNames in introspect.py with

    attributes.sort(lambda x, y: cmp(x.upper(), y.upper()))

    so it is converting to upper case rather than lower case and this moves
the on_* after on followed by a letter. The autocompletion box is assuming
that case insensitive order places the '_' after 'Z', can't find any entries
that match and so dies. It uses a binary rather than linear search so misses
the on_ earlier. Since it is a binary search, it may sometimes find the on_
even though it is in the wrong place as the binary search depends on order
and the order is inconsistent.

   With case insensitive code, the characters [\]^_` which are located
between Z and a have to sort somewhere, so Scintilla puts them after the
letters.

   Neil