Note

This documentation is for a development version of IPython. There may be significant differences from the latest stable release.

Module: utils.generics

Generic functions for extending IPython.

See http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplegeneric.

2 Functions

IPython.utils.generics.inspect_object(*args, **kw)

Called when you do obj?

IPython.utils.generics.complete_object(*args, **kw)

Custom completer dispatching for python objects.

Parameters:
  • obj (object) – The object to complete.
  • prev_completions (list) – List of attributes discovered so far.
  • should return the list of attributes in obj. If you only wish to (This) –
  • to the attributes already discovered normally, return (add) –
  • + prev_completions. (own_attrs) –