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Multiple improvements to tab completion....
Multiple improvements to tab completion. I refactored the API quite a bit, to retain readline compatibility but make it more independent of readline. There's still more to do in cleaning up our init_readline() method, but now the completer objects have separate rlcomplete() and complete() methods. The former uses the quirky readline API with a state flag, while the latter is stateless, takes only text information, and is more suitable for GUIs and other frontends to call programatically. Made other minor fixes to ensure the test suite passes in full. While all this code is a bit messy, we're getting in the direction of the APIs we need in the long run.

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ledit.py
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""" Fun magic line editor for ipython
Use this to easily edit lists of strings gradually without crafting long
list comprehensions.
'l' is the magic variable name for every line (array element). Save the current
result (or more exactly, retrieve the last ipython computation result into
%led work area) by running '%led s'. Just run '%led' to show the current work
area data.
Example use:
[ipython]|25> setups = !ls *setup*.py
==
['eggsetup.py', 'setup.py', 'setup_bdist_egg.py']
[ipython]|26> setups
<26> ['eggsetup.py', 'setup.py', 'setup_bdist_egg.py']
[ipython]|27> %led s
Data set from last result (_)
<27> ['eggsetup.py', 'setup.py', 'setup_bdist_egg.py']
[ipython]|28> %led upper
cmd translated => l.upper()
<28> ['EGGSETUP.PY', 'SETUP.PY', 'SETUP_BDIST_EGG.PY']
[ipython]|29> %led
Magic line editor (for lists of strings)
current data is:
['eggsetup.py', 'setup.py', 'setup_bdist_egg.py']
[ipython]|30> %led upper
cmd translated => l.upper()
<30> ['EGGSETUP.PY', 'SETUP.PY', 'SETUP_BDIST_EGG.PY']
[ipython]|31> %led s
Data set from last result (_)
<31> ['EGGSETUP.PY', 'SETUP.PY', 'SETUP_BDIST_EGG.PY']
[ipython]|32> %led "n:" + l
<32> ['n:EGGSETUP.PY', 'n:SETUP.PY', 'n:SETUP_BDIST_EGG.PY']
[ipython]|33> %led s
Data set from last result (_)
<33> ['n:EGGSETUP.PY', 'n:SETUP.PY', 'n:SETUP_BDIST_EGG.PY']
[ipython]|34> %led l.
l.__add__ l.__gt__ l.__reduce_ex__ l.endswith l.join l.rstrip
l.__class__ l.__hash__ l.__repr__ l.expandtabs l.ljust l.split
... (completions for string variable shown ) ...
"""
from IPython.core import ipapi
import pprint
ip = ipapi.get()
curdata = []
def line_edit_f(self, cmd ):
global curdata
if not cmd:
print "Magic line editor (for lists of strings)"
if curdata:
print "current data is:"
pprint.pprint(curdata)
else:
print "No current data, you should set it by running '%led s'"
print "When you have your data in _ (result of last computation)."
return
if cmd == 's':
curdata = ip.ev('_')
print "Data set from last result (_)"
newlines = curdata
else:
# simple method call, e.g. upper
if cmd.isalpha():
cmd = 'l.' + cmd + '()'
print "cmd translated =>",cmd
newlines = []
for l in curdata:
try:
l2 = eval(cmd)
except Exception,e:
print "Dropping exception",e,"on line:",l
continue
newlines.append(l2)
return newlines
def line_edit_complete_f(self,event):
""" Show all string methods in completions """
if event.symbol.startswith('l.'):
return ['l.' + func for func in dir('')]
return dir('') + ['l.' + func for func in dir('')]
ip.set_hook('complete_command', line_edit_complete_f , str_key = '%led')
ip.define_magic('led', line_edit_f)