Eclipse pydev auto-suggestions don't work in some cases

Question

My question is probably stupid and I hope somebody has succeeded in solving this issue.

Sometimes I cannot see right suggestions in auto-completion box (Eclipse 3.5.

Answer 1

I know @type in docstring works. As in:

from collections import deque

def foo(a):
''' code completion sample
@type a: deque
'''
return a.popleft()  # Code completion will work here

I have not been able to find a way to do it inline within code (except in ways mentioned elsewhere where you simply pretend to assign the variable an instance of a type) as in:

from collections import deque

def foo(a):
''' code completion sample '''
if false: a = deque()
return a.popleft()  # Code completion will also work here

But I'm not fond of this method because it probably imposes some performance / code size penalty. I don't know / haven't checked if Python is smart enough to remove this assignment during compile time.

Thanks to SiSoie, here's a link to page explaining possibilities.