Re: [Pydev-code] Re: parentheses autocompletion

[Karol P. \(R. Student\) <ka...@ri...>]

Fabio Zadrozny wrote:
> Waiting forward to see it... :-)
>=20
> p.s. I'm also forwarding it to the pydev mailing list

I was thinking parentheses auto-completion in the context of tuples.  =
The Java Eclipse editor will remove empty parentheses if your cursor is =
between them and you hit backspace. i.e.,

something()
          ^ cursor in between the parentheses, and you hit backspace

...you will get...

something

It's just one of those niceties that the Java editor gives you.  =
However, in Python, () is an empty tuple, and [] is an empty list.

So what does everyone think would be the best way to approach this?  I =
see three ways so far (there's probably more).

1. Like the Java editor, always delete the two parentheses if you have =
the cursor between them.
2. Never delete the two parentheses.  Just delete the left parenthesis =
(current, simple behavior).
3. Sometimes delete the two parentheses, based on the context.  I'm not =
sure what kind of algorithm we could employ here because I couldn't =
think of an example where I _wouldn't_ want the editor to delete both =
parentheses for me.

(1) is easiest to implement and I think I prefer it, so if I get the go =
ahead I'll code that up.