Pythonwin is terrible!

[David C. Ullrich]

Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote in article
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> "Boudewijn Rempt" <boud at rempt.xs4all.nl> wrote in message
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> > The lookups aren't that great - they only find what you've already used
> > in that file. I'd like loopup to look in every file that's included for
> > completion. But I'm not going to complain - it's good for my memory not
> > to have it ;-).
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> This is amazingly hard to do correctly - and the hard bits are not
related
> to Pythonwin!
> 
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> So if anyone can come up with generic code that can do this, all current
> and future IDEs for Python could benefit.

        My conjecture is it's literally/provably impossible to do it
perfectly.
Not that I'm going to try to prove that, and not to say that an imperfect
version could not still be very useful.

> Mark.
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