[IronPython] VS Support/Intelllisense for IronPython

[Michael Foord]

Justin Regele wrote:
> actually, didn't quite do what i thought, now that I tested after I 
> posted (doh!)
>
> if you remove the '.__doc__' from the print, then yes you can actually 
> see the attributes. the problem with the doc strings here is that they 
> are all the same.
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Justin Regele <jregele23 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jregele23 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Could the intellisense be written in IronPython itself? Given
>     pythons reflective nature, this could be very easy, and then the
>     community could re-write how it behaves to suit wha they want.
>
>
>     open up the console and do this
>
>     #make a list, or whatever
>     x=[]
>     for attr in dir(x):
>         print attr.__doc__
>

dir returns a list of strings. Here you are just printing the docstring 
of the string in the loop - string docstrings are unsurprising all the 
same...

See this code for how to fetch docstrings from object attributes. It's 
more fiddly than you would expect:

    http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2009_05_16.shtml#e1090

There's actually another corner case that code doesn't handle - where a 
descriptor shadows a name that also exists in the instance dictionary. 
This code will return the docstring from the object in the instance 
dictionary when it should return the descriptor docstring.

Of course none of this is really much help for intellisense where you 
need to do it from static analysis and not from live objects.

All the best,

Michael Foord

>
>
>
>
>     On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Oleg Tkachenko
>     <olegtk at microsoft.com <mailto:olegtk at microsoft.com>> wrote:
>
>         This is totally can be done by the community + maybe some help
>         from Dino if you hit any IPy issues. The VS interfaces are
>         open and VS SDK includes IPy integration sample that contains
>         simple intellisense implementation.
>
>          
>
>         --
>
>         Oleg
>
>          
>
>         *From:* users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com
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>         <mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com>] *On Behalf Of
>         *Adam Brand
>         *Sent:* Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:41 PM
>
>         *To:* Discussion of IronPython
>         *Subject:* Re: [IronPython] VS Support/Intelllisense for
>         IronPython
>
>          
>
>         Is adding Intellisense for IPY to VS something that can be
>         done by the community, or does it require access to source
>         code that we can’t access?
>
>          
>
>         I’m not familiar with the extent to which VS can be customized
>         for languages.
>
>          
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         Adam
>
>          
>
>         Adam Brand
>
>         SilverKey Technologies
>
>          
>
>         *From:* users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com
>         <mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com>
>         [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com
>         <mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com>] *On Behalf Of
>         *Dino Viehland
>         *Sent:* Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:18 AM
>         *To:* Discussion of IronPython
>         *Subject:* Re: [IronPython] VS Support/Intelllisense for
>         IronPython
>
>          
>
>         We’ve made some attempts in the past (e.g. IronPython Studio)
>         but there’s no longer any active development for intellisense.
>
>          
>
>         *From:* users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com
>         <mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com>
>         [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com
>         <mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com>] *On Behalf Of
>         *Adam Brand
>         *Sent:* Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:35 AM
>         *To:* Discussion of IronPython
>         *Subject:* [IronPython] VS Support/Intelllisense for IronPython
>
>          
>
>         I was wondering if there is any ongoing development to support
>         Intellisense with IronPython in Visual Studio.
>
>          
>
>         Can someone from the team comment on this?
>
>          
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         Adam
>
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