On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Nils Bruin <nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote: > While I agree that tab completion is very useful as a low-cost > documentation tool, I find it a little worrisome if our design > decisions come to be dominated by having tab completion generate > appropriate indices. In lots of cases it will go hand in hand with > writing clean code to begin with (messy namespaces are often a sign of > messy code), but if it forces us to go through strange contortions > (like a separate index namespace module as above) perhaps we have to > rethink our use of tab completion.
The new version of IPython has an option to have the tab completion respect the __all__ variable in the module. This would be one way to deal with this. See https://github.com/ipython/ipython/pull/1529 --Mike -- -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
