I believe there must be a way... Maybe by creating an index file for each module. I'm not sure, but I think the number of packages on apt-get is much more than the number of python built-in modules (obviously I don't know their number), yet it is doable with the case of apt-get.
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Benjamin Peterson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Abdallah El Guindy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all > > > > I know that the feature I am about to suggest may be minor and may have a > > very low priority considering other issues to be discussed, however I'll > > suggest it anyways.. > > > > Being a very frequent user of the interactive shell, I find it annoying > when > > I try to use a function or a class that resides in another module that I > > haven't imported... So why not let the interactive shell say a message > about > > the appropriate module to be imported for this class/function.. The idea > is > > similar to bash on Ubuntu, if you don't have the necessary package it > lets > > you know by suggesting the package name to be installed. > > How would that be implemented? At the least, every module and package > on sys.path would have to be scanned. > > > > Let me know what you think. > > > > Thank you. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-3000 mailing list > > Python-3000@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > > Unsubscribe: > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/musiccomposition%40gmail.com > > > > > > > > -- > Cheers, > Benjamin Peterson > "There's no place like 127.0.0.1." >
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