On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:52 PM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> This is probably a stupid question: Is there a way to hide or delete a >> method for a class? If I do this: >> >> class SteenrodAlgebra(Algebra): >> blah >> blah >> >> then do >> >> A = SteenrodAlgebra() >> >> then A has inherited all of the methods from the Algebra class, many >> of which are useful, but some of which are completely irrelevant >> (e.g., the 'variable_name' method). It might be nice if I could >> define the class SteenrodAlgebra so as to hide (or remove) those >> methods, so that 'A.<tab>' doesn't display them as possibilities. (I'm >> trying to think of this from the point of view of beginning users who >> might be overwhelmed by the long list of options when they try to tab- >> complete.) >> >> So, is there any way to do this, or am I stuck with these methods once >> I define SteenrodAlgebra in terms of the Algebra class? > > I don't know of an easy way to hide a particular method, but you can > control what things get tab completed by defining a trait_names > method: > > sage: class Foo(object): > ....: def trait_names(self): > ....: return ['a','b','c','d'] > ....: > sage: a = Foo() > sage: a. > a.a a.b a.c a.d a.trait_names > > As a user, I don't know whether or not I would prefer a "customized" > tab completion.
trait_names doesn't currently allow one to cover up existing names from appearing in the tab completion list. However, I'm certain Fernando Perez could make it so IPython could call some function like trait_names that would allow one to cover up certain attributes. Fernando -- what do you think? -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
