Re: New Feature, feedback requested, IPython Jedi Completions

I was enjoying the new completions in ipython. Can you outline what
undesired side effects there were. I am fine reverting for 5.0, just
curious.

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Matthias Bussonnier
<[email protected]> wrote:
> So small update,
>
> Integrating with jedi completion had a few undesired side-effect, well
> roll back the integration for 5.0 and rework it for 6.0.
> So no jedi for now...
>
> Still for it was a nice experience and the integration in 6.0 should
> improve completion a lot.
>
> Thanks !
> --
> M
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Brian Granger <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Awesome!!!
>>
>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Matthias Bussonnier
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hello List,
>>>
>>> A few minutes ago we merged a PR[1] adding jedi[2] integration to IPython,
>>> this make the IPython completer a bit smarter,
>>> as it now knows about situation like:
>>>
>>> In[1]: ('je'+'di').upper().<tab>
>>>
>>> Where it will infer that you are actually calling a method on a string,
>>> which before was requiring setting `IPCompleter.greedy` to `true`
>>> which has the drawback of evaluating your code with its side effects.
>>>
>>> Though, the API Jedi provide and API IPython expect are slightly different,
>>> we did our best to adapt the two, still I would expect
>>> a few edge cases to appear where the result of the completion might be
>>> wrong.
>>>
>>> We would appreciate if you could look out for these cases, and report any
>>> completion that misbehave.
>>> This will likely affect both IPython when using the notebook, and the plain
>>> IPython terminal.
>>>
>>> Enjoy pressing the "weaponized" tab key even more, and kudos to @liukelly
>>> [3] for her work
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Matthias
>>>
>>> Extra notes: Jedi appears as a mandatory dependency, but IPython should
>>> still work if Jedi is not importable.
>>> IPCompleter.use_jedi_completions=<Bool> config parameter can be use to
>>> deactivate jedi completions if they are by any chance annoying.
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/ipython/ipython/pull/9375
>>> [2] http://jedi.jedidjah.ch/en/latest/
>>> [3] https://github.com/liukelly
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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