On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:01 AM, phelix wrote: > > >> I am trying to write an extension to add autocompletion for "self". > >Have you tried adding this functionality to the existing AutoComplete > >extension? That could save you a lot of work and would be the best way to > >do it. > I took a good look at it and also at CodeContext and learned a lot from it. > But it was easier to put it into its own extension and seemed cleaner to > me. > Of course the completions show up in AutoComplete. What it does is that it > simply points a global Reference "self" to the classname(s) it finds in the > editor above the cursor. >
For your own good and for the good of IDLE, I urge you to try implementing this by improving AutoComplete. Your approach (as I understand it) both requires first fixing a delicate bug regarding IDLE's event handling and messes around with the Shell's namespace. I don't think you will manage to get such a patch accepted. >The best tip I can give you is to run IDLE from the command line (on > >Windows, C:\Python32\python.exe C:\Python32\Lib\idlelib\idle.py). Then you > >can see output and exceptions printed to the command console. You could > also > >print your own debugging info using "print" instead of using that s_print > >function, and it won't show up in IDLE's shell, just in the command > console. > I figured this out by coincidence just after I had posted this question. > Though it seems very obvious to me know this is a very good hint and should > by all means be included in the extend.txt file or on some website about > IDLE Development. > Good point. If you submit a patch which updates extend.txt appropriately, I'll review it. - Tal
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