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Re: Auto-completion: why not module name?

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On 16.03.2015 17:40, Chris Angelico wrote:
> This is a very plausible feature request, but be aware that it will
> involve a very costly disk search. Figuring out what modules could be
> imported means going through the entire Python module search path,
> enumerating .py (and other) files, and that could be a lot slower than
> you think.

With possible side-effects, like help("modules") has. I don’t think that
this is a trivial task (and if it is, why is help("modules") not
implemented in that trivial way?)

regards,
jwi

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Auto-completion: why not module name? candide <c.candide@laposte.net> - 2015-03-16 09:23 -0700
  Re: Auto-completion: why not module name? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-17 03:40 +1100
  Re: Auto-completion: why not module name? Jonas Wielicki <jonas@wielicki.name> - 2015-03-16 17:54 +0100
  Re: Auto-completion: why not module name? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-03-16 10:57 -0600
  Re: Auto-completion: why not module name? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-17 19:10 +1100
    Re: Auto-completion: why not module name? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2015-03-17 12:22 +0000
      Re: Auto-completion: why not module name? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-18 09:54 +1100
  Auto-completion of Unicode names [was why not module name?] Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-18 10:29 +1100
    Re: Auto-completion of Unicode names [was why not module name?] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-18 11:06 +1100
    Re: Auto-completion of Unicode names [was why not module name?] Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2015-03-18 01:07 +0000

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