[wingide-users] Autocomplete Confusion

[Wingware Support]

Michael Foord wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> In tests we often monkey patch instances. This breaks Wing autocomplete 
> and it seems like it shouldn't.
> 
> If you do the following:
> 
> instance = Class()
> instance.method = Mock()
> 
> Wing doesn't offer autocomplete on any members of instance.method even 
> though it could know that this is an instance of the Mock class...

Yes, currently Wing only looks at the contents of the class def
and values set w/ 'self.whatever = something' as far as deciding
what's in an instance.

This is something we'll try to improve in the future.

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Stephan Deibel
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