On 7/31/07, Ali Afshar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 06/06/07, Tal Einat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, (just joined the group) > > > > I've been developing IDLE over the past 2 years or so. Even before > > that, I helped a friend of mine, Noam Raphael, write IDLE's > > auto-completion, which is included in recent versions of IDLE. > > > > Noam wrote the original completion code from scratch, and AFAIK every > > Python IDE which features code completion has done the same. Surely > > there is -some- functionality which could be useful cross-IDE? > > Retrieving possible completions from the namespace, for example. And > > we should be learning from each-others' ideas and experiences. > > > > So how about we design a generic Python completion module, that > > each IDE could extend, and use for the completion logic? > > > > - Tal > > I have just implemented a completion mockup using Rope (which is a > refactoring library). It works quite nicely, and definitely worth a > look. > > http://rope.sourceforge.net/ > > [snip]
On 7/31/07, Ali Afshar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 06/06/07, Tal Einat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, (just joined the group) > > > > I've been developing IDLE over the past 2 years or so. Even before > > that, I helped a friend of mine, Noam Raphael, write IDLE's > > auto-completion, which is included in recent versions of IDLE. > > > > Noam wrote the original completion code from scratch, and AFAIK every > > Python IDE which features code completion has done the same. Surely > > there is -some- functionality which could be useful cross-IDE? > > Retrieving possible completions from the namespace, for example. And > > we should be learning from each-others' ideas and experiences. > > > > So how about we design a generic Python completion module, that > > each IDE could extend, and use for the completion logic? > > > > - Tal > > I have just implemented a completion mockup using Rope (which is a > refactoring library). It works quite nicely, and definitely worth a > look. > > http://rope.sourceforge.net/ > > [snip] Wow, Rope does look very impressive! A quick look at the code tells me that a lot of work has been invested in it. So we have one existing Python-only solution. We should evaluate it - see what it can and can't do, and perhaps take a look at the overall design. I'm CC-ing Rope's developer, Ali. Hopefully Ali can help us quickly understand Rope's code analysis capabilities. Ali, could you elaborate a bit on what kinds of completion Rope can do, and the methods it uses? We would especially like to know how your static and dynamic inference work, what they can accomplish, and what their limitations are. - Tal
