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'Intellisense' possible for Python?

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Dec 19 01:06:35 EST 2002 
"Greg Brunet" <gbrunet at nospamsempersoft.com> wrote in message
news:3e00e7e7$0$1402$272ea4a1 at news.execpc.com...
> Coming from a VB background where the IDE allows you to view &
> auto-complete all of the properties & methods of an object, it's
> disappointing not to have it - at least in the IDE's I've looked
into so
> far.  While I get this kind of behavior for modules in PythonWin
> (automatically)

It does the same for most everything with a name.  Type
>>> a=''
>>> a.
and a box pops up with a list of all string methods.  Add a 'j' and
the hilite jumps down to 'join'.  Hit tab and it fills in 'oin'.
However, ''. gets no response.

It also offers a signature for functions.

TJR
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