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. --Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
