Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:06:07 -0300, Stef Mientki
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Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:25:30 -0300, Stef Mientki
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
I'm trying to implement autocompletion into my editor.
But I find some weird behavior,
or at least I don't have the faintest idea why this behavior
occures,
and even more important how to solve it
In the example below I try to autocomplete " wx.s" , which in my
humble opinion should at least produce "wx.stc" (and some others ).
wx is a package. Modules within the package are not, by default,
attributes of the package - unless they're imported in __init__.py
or your code imports them.
So the autocompleter is doing the right thing
in what perspective ?
the autocompleter is only meant to assist the program writer ;-)
It's hard to write an autocompleter that does the right thing in all
cases :)
For a package, you have several sources for possibly valid attributes:
- its dir() (that is, the package object's own attributes)
- the __all__ attribute, when it exists
- the list of modules inside the package directory or directories
(given by its __path__ attribute)
Sometimes __init__.py is empty - and enumerating the modules inside
the directory is the right thing to do. Sometimes the author
explicitely imports things in __init__.py, things that comprise the
public interfase to the package. In that case I'd not like to see
"private" modules appearing in the list.
Combine with __all__, which might be defined or not. Mix all those,
choose your own autocomplete algorithm, and see what happens...
- wx.stc does not exist until it is explicitely imported.
I guess I've to study the package.
For the moment I'll implement a user editable list of additions.
But with your remarks I tried __all__
And now I wonder why rlcompleter is not simply using "wx.__all__",
it than does gets all the items ?
__all__ isn't always defined. It's only used when you do "from xxx
import *" AFAIK.
thanks Gabriel,
very valuable information for me,
I'll bookmark this message for later use.
cheers,
Setf
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