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by Aloisius 4539 days ago
Many C# and Java-heads complain that Python lacks support for auto-completion. Which is true

Isn't that an IDE issue and not a language issue? I have no problem with the auto-completion in ipython for instance, though even ipython notebook is only useful for writing simple amounts of code. PyDev though works well too for larger projects albeit a bit sluggishly.
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bjourne 4539 days ago
No, Pythons dynamicness means it is in general impossible to find all available completions:

    m = type('', (), {})()
    setattr(m, 'foo', 123)
    m.f<tab>
Without actually running the code (which is unsafe), no editor could at that point figure out what the completion should be.
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