[Pydev-code] Code completion

[Aleks T. <a...@to...>]

Here are some of the Fabio's thoughts on it. I agree that it is 
tricky, that is why I did not want to dive into it.

Aleks

 >>> Fabio wrote:

Nice... code completion is something that I'm really missing too...

Anyway, I have a question: How do they intend to implement it in 
Python? I mean, true code completion in Python without a running 
Python environment doesn't seem trivial... specially to get all 
the classes on the PYTHONPATH...

I think it shouldn't be based on Jython either, because, you 
know, we might be using Python and not Jython, so we don't care 
about Java classes anyway (Altough we could have 2 code 
completions available, one for Jython and one for Python)

Well, I'm just curious because I still haven't found a good way 
to do it without a running shell... Statically parsing it is kind 
of hard, because some simple cases like:

Class A(object):
	def a(self): pass

Class B(object):
	def b(self): pass

aOrB = A()
aOrB.    <-- should appear just a()(and maybe built-ins, like 
__dict__, etc)
aOrB = B()
aOrB.    <-- should appear just b()(and built-ins)

require a lot of effort for working correctly without a running 
shell... ( I don't think a running shell is a good think, because 
of side effects that can happen when importing a module - I used 
an editor that used that approach before and I really didn't like 
it, because it crashed sometimes - later I found that it was 
because I was using qt and it can only have one QApplication at 
any time and the editor was reimporting the module and trying to 
instanciate it more that once, so I had to change my program
because of the IDE... and this, I think can be really annoying 
sometimes...)


Well, as I said, I'm just curious...

[]'s

	Fabio