how to declare variable's type in pydev?

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Suppose there's a set of class Map1,Map2,Map3,... all extended from BaseMap, and I use some reflection mechanism to get the child Map's instance. I want to dynamically get an instance of one of these classes and store it in a variable m, and have pydev recognize the type as BaseMap so I can use word completion on it.

I found one solution is to add the code

if False:
    m = BaseMap(0,0,0)

after assigning m and before using it. The line inside the if condition would never be executed, but it declares m is a BaseMap type object.

This may look silly, but it did work. Is there any other way to do it?

Related: Autocompletion in dynamic language IDEs, specifically Python in PyDev — Piotr Dobrogost
– Piotr Dobrogost, Commented Sep 12, 2012 at 22:11
possible duplicate of Pydev Code Completion for everything The answers on that question are more complete and up-to-date, include the sphinx :type m: BaseMap notation that doesn't require assertions. — Joshua Taylor
– Joshua Taylor, Commented Dec 4, 2014 at 22:05

sloth · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-12 06:50:23Z

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You can use assert isinstance(...) to get autocompletion in pydev on variables where otherwise pydev would not be able to guess the correct type.

Say your code is:

m = getAttr(someThing, 'someAttr')
m.*no autocompletion*

pydev would not be able to know the type of m and therefore won't show the autocompletion.

Try:

m = getAttr(someThing, 'someAttr')
assert isinstance(m, BaseMap) # or whatever class it is
m.*pydev shows autocompletion*

It's somewhat hacky, but it will work (and also does not hurt).

answered Sep 12, 2012 at 6:50

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:46:28Z

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This question is similar to this post: Eclipse pydev auto-suggestions don't work in some cases

One good answer is already suggested (using asserts). Another solution is to use a constructors as described in this link.

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answered Sep 13, 2012 at 15:35

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