Re: [Pydev-code] Another take at symlinks

[Fabio Z. <fa...@gm...>]

Hi Chris,

I've created a new implementation for listFilesForCompletion (had to
> change a little bit of changePythonPath, too), and it seems to work here
> locally, all modules are found regardless whether linked or not.
>
> Now I'm testing a little bit, and found out the following does NOT work:
>
>   from xml.dom import minidom
>   doc = minidom.parse("test.xml")
>   e = doc. <-- no completion on "doc"
>
> On the other hand, if I write
>
> doc2 = minidom.Document()
>
> code completion on doc2 works as expected.
>
> Could this be related to my patch, or is it a general problem?


It's a 'general problem'. Basically, pydev will try to analyze the parse
function for its return value and is unable to discover the likely value in
the return, whereas in the other option, it can readily find the assignment
to Document.

Cheers,

Fabio