[wingide-users] Using Wing IDE with IronPython - autocomplete for .NET objects (PI file generator)

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Michael Foord wrote:
> I've created a modified version of the 'generate_pi.py' which generates 
> the interface files for .NET libraries. It is attached.

Looks good.  What we do for generating .pi files for CPython standard 
builtin modules is use another script that imports generate_pi and calls 
  generate_pi.ProcessModule.  This may be a good way to factor out the 
.net specific bits.

> It isn't yet able to do anything with the information about return types 
> - which would allow Wing to know the type of objects returned by 
> methods. This may be easy to add?

This is done by generating a return statement in the def body, e.g. from 
__builtin__.pi

def open(name, mode = 'r', buffering = 1): # -> file object
   """ .... """

   return file(name, mode, buffering)

Thanks for looking at this.

John