On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Abdallah El Guindy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
I think Ruby has a similar tool; someone once showed me how in Ruby you can just start to type the function or class name and it lists all possible matches, and then when you make a choice it shows the docs. I am sure it was done based on an index. And doctools probably already has this index information somewhere (isn't it used for pydoc?). But I don't care enough to code up a solution. =) -Brett > 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." > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/brett%40python.org > > _______________________________________________ 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/archive%40mail-archive.com
