auto-completion not working - files and pipes

[Gabriel M. Elder]

In the PyDev perspective, if I open a file or pipe, such as:

f = open("somefile.text")
p = os.popen("ls -al *.text")

and then try to type f.read() or p.readlines(), auto-completion does not engage as expected to display the appropriate class methods after I type the '.' after the object name.

What is presented in the auto-completion drop-down instead is a list of the parent class methods for anything derived from 'object' (such as __str__, __cmp__, etc.), and, mercifully, an option for method calls that I had manually invoked previously, i.e. whatever it remembered in that object's call history.

Notably, if I start a new line and type 'file.', the appropriate methods appear in the auto-completion drop-down (close(), flush(), etc.).

I would expect that the auto-completion would also readily display read(), readlines(), close(), etc. for any object returned from an open() or popen().

[Fabio Zadrozny]

Please enter that as a bug request (the problem is that PyDev can't really call your code to know what a method would return, but this specific use-case could be hard-coded - it works for file because it's a class, not a method).

Cheers,

Fabio