Note

This documentation is for a development version of IPython. There may be significant differences from the latest stable release (1.2.1).

Module: utils.generics

Generic functions for extending IPython.

See http://cheeseshop.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.

This should return the list of attributes in obj. If you only wish to

add to the attributes already discovered normally, return

own_attrs + prev_completions.