[Python-3000] Minor addition to Python interactive shell...
Ron Adam
rrr at ronadam.com
Tue Aug 26 21:48:17 CEST 2008
Abdallah El Guindy wrote:
> Hey all
>
> I know that the feature I am about to suggest may be minor and may have
> a very low priority considering other issues to be discussed, however
> I'll suggest it anyways..
>
> Being a very frequent user of the interactive shell, I find it annoying
> when I try to use a function or a class that resides in another module
> that I haven't imported... So why not let the interactive shell say a
> message about the appropriate module to be imported for this
> class/function.. The idea is similar to bash on Ubuntu, if you don't
> have the necessary package it lets you know by suggesting the package
> name to be installed.
>
> Let me know what you think.
I think the best way to add this is to add it to the help function, which
is the console interface to pydoc. Something like help(find="name") could
find all instances of name in all available modules.
Ron
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