mod_speling for python

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> I know there are drawbacks, disadvantages, this is "evil", etc.  I
    >> only wanted to know what ways there are to add such a hook if it is
    >> possible without altering the C source for python itself.

    Josiah> Ambiguities during execution are bad.  I've got two functions
    Josiah> Foo and foO, if I type in foo, what did I mean?

I didn't interpret the OP's question as wanting to automatically map Foo to
foO, but to give the user a more helpful error message, suggesting other
candidate names which he might have mistyped.

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