[Eric] Autocompletion and math module

[☂Josh Chiα (谢任中)]

$ sudo apt-get install python-qscintilla2
[sudo] password for jchia:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python-qscintilla2 is already the newest version.
python-qscintilla2 set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ eric
Warning: translation file 'qt_en_US'could not be loaded.
Using default.
Warning: translation file 'eric4_en_US'could not be loaded.
Using default.
Warning: translation file 'qscintilla_en_US'could not be loaded.
Using default.

After this, I looked API dialog.  The "Add from installed APIs" was greyed
out.  I'm running a variant of Ubuntu Hardy.

Josh

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Detlev Offenbach
<detlev at die-offenbachs.de>wrote:

> On Samstag, 25. Oktober 2008, ☂Josh Chiα (谢任中) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not sure how to get auto-completion to work.  E.g. if I just install
> > Eric4.1.1, and edit a .py file, autocompletion doesn't know anything
> about
> > math.sqrt.  Fine, I run "eric4-api -o test.api /usr/lib/python2.5/*.py",
> > and set Eric to use the resulting test.api.  Well, math is not in a .py
> > file. How do I get Eric to autocomplete for a standard modules like math?
> > I'm not sure what other modules have the same problem as math.
> >
> > Josh
>
> Have you tried to enable the usage of the Python API file that comes with
> QScintilla (I think)? Just go to the eric4 configuration dialog, API page,
> select Python and select "Add from installed APIs". You should get a list
> of
> raw API files to select from. Once done, just compile the list into a
> prepared API file (which is a binary file). This file is used by the
> QScintilla autocompletion. Alternatively you may install the eric4
> assistant
> plugin (for eric4 4.2.0 or better) and configure the autocompletion to use
> that instead. You still have to configure the set of rawAPI files to use.
> However, compilation is done automatically if needed.
>
> Regards,
> Detlev
> --
> Detlev Offenbach
> detlev at die-offenbachs.de
>
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