I have a class Surface with many methods. Working in the interactive window I receive an error like this when I write the wrong method name:
>>> table.addGlas() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? AttributeError: 'Surface' object has no attribute 'addGlas' Is it possibile to make the object give a better answer: a short list of few method names similar to the one I've misspelled? I've found some modules with phonetic algorithms like soundex, metaphone, etc, for example here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/advas/ I can produce the list of method names with this: toRemove = """__delattr__ __dict__ __getattribute__ __module__ __new__ __reduce__ __copy__ __reduce_ex__ __setattr__ __slot__ __weakref__ __str__ __class__ __doc__""".split() methods = sorted( set(dir(Surface)).difference(toRemove) ) The problem is calling the phonetic algorithm to show a ranked list of the 2-4 method names most similar to the wrong one called. I don't know if this problem requires a change in the python shell, or in the metaclass of that Surface class, etc. And in the end maybe this functionality (inspired by a similar Mathematica one) is already inside IPython :-] Bye, Bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list