Re: Intellisense and the psychology of typing
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Re: Intellisense and the psychology of typing

From: Brian Beck <exogen@gmail.com>
Date: Fri May 27 2005 - 17:32:51 CEST



Well, there are two distinct features of IntelliSense as you know it.


One is auto-completion and the other is contextual help.



Auto-completion is included almost all beefy Python IDE's.



Contextual help is included even in IDLE, where if you begin typing a


function call, its docstring pops up around where you are typing.


Since many functions have dynamic arguments, I think this really is the


best solution, since the implementor of the function knows what would


be the most helpful to show.  Open the interactive IDLE prompt and type


max(, iter(, help(, for example -- although most of those are pretty


minimal.


Received on Thu Sep 29 16:15:06 2005