Auto-completion: why not module name?

[Jonas Wielicki]

On 16.03.2015 17:40, Chris Angelico wrote:
> This is a very plausible feature request, but be aware that it will
> involve a very costly disk search. Figuring out what modules could be
> imported means going through the entire Python module search path,
> enumerating .py (and other) files, and that could be a lot slower than
> you think.

With possible side-effects, like help("modules") has. I don’t think that
this is a trivial task (and if it is, why is help("modules") not
implemented in that trivial way?)

regards,
jwi

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