[IPython-User] tab completion not working for my libraries

[Michael Aye]

On 2012-11-23 11:09:22 +0000, Thomas Kluyver said:

> The list of libraries is cached, because discovering them all is quite 
> slow. If you installed your library after the cache was built, it won't 
> be there. The magic command %rehashx should clear the cache, and it 
> will be regenerated the next time you try to tab complete 'import x'.


Great, thx. That was it.

michael

> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> On 23 November 2012 09:36, Michael Aye <kmichael.aye@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012-11-23 06:04:29 +0000, David Warde-Farley said:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Michael Aye <kmichael.aye@gmail.com> wrote:
> > First I thought it has something to do with my libraries not being in
> > my PYTHONPATH yet, but after adding, ipython still does not
> > tab-complete my own libraries, even so it finds them alright.
> >
> > Interestingly this works fine on my Macbook, the problem occurs on our
> > CentOS linux server, running EPD 7.3-1. (Same as on the Macbook).
> >
> > So what really controls if a library can be tab-completed?
> >
> > Just to be sure, have you imported these libraries in the current
> > IPython session? Tab completion doesn't work until an object actually
> > exists (which is basically a limitation of Python being a dynamic
> > language), so if the import statement hasn't been executed, it won't
> > work.
> 
> Not true, I can use tab-completion already at the time of import, which
> is what I am talking about here, sorry if that was unclear.
> Try it for yourself:
> 
> In [1]: import c
> cPickle                chaco                  commands               crypt
> cProfile               check_ctx_boundaries   compileall             csv
> cStringIO              chunk                  compiler
> ctx_and_mola
> cairo                  cloud                  configobj              ctx_isis
> calendar               cmath                  contextlib             ctypes
> calib                  cmd                    cookielib
> cube_loader
> calib_compare          code                   copy                   curses
> canny                  codecs                 copy_files_from_input
> custom_fixers
> casuarius              codeop                 copy_reg
> custom_tools
> cfmfile                codetools              coreg_value_writer     cython
> cgi                    collections            coregister
> cythonmagic
> cgitb                  colorsys               coverage
> 
> Michael
> 
> >
> > David
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