pydev code completition and duck typing in pyqt and qt4

Question

Hello i have just installed pydev because of code completition. my first sketch is some simple qt widget.

i'm ovverriding mouseMoveEvent:

def mouseMoveEvent(self, event):

    mouse = event.pos()

now.. i know that event variable is a QtCore.QPoint type.. but code completition does not work.. ok i understand it: there is no hard typing, there is duck typing, in theory event could be of any possible type..

instead if i have this code:

point = QtCore.QPoint()

when i write point. code completition works fine (of course it knows the type without doubt!)

i want code completition also in overriding mouseMoveEvent.. what else can i do besides change language and shift in c++ or java?

SOLUTION : as gary pointed me in this thread this trick works:

def mouseMoveEvent(self, event):
    assert(isinstance(event, QtGui.QMouseEvent))

    mouse = event.

Answer 1

I'm certain that this is not a problem Python, but rather with how your PyDev is set up.

There are plenty of Python IDE's available that have no problem handling the sort of code-completion you mention - such as eric , for instance.

So if you can't get PyDev to do the right thing, the answer is not to switch languages, but to switch IDE's.