These are ".api" files for extending SciTE text editor, with autocomplete and calltip definitions, for some of my favorite Python packages.

Usage

Locate SciTE's python.properties file, and point api.*.py= property to the path of ".api" files. For example:

api.$(file.patterns.py)=$(SciteUserHome)/.local/share/scite/api/python.api;\
$(SciteUserHome)/.local/share/scite/api/numpy.api;\
$(SciteUserHome)/.local/share/scite/api/scipy.api

calltip.python.end.definition=)
calltip.python.word.characters=._$(chars.alpha)$(chars.numeric)
calltip.python.parameters.start=(
calltip.python.parameters.end=)
calltip.python.parameters.separators=,

In action

Pressing calltip shortcut again, rolls more detailed explanation:

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Generation

Files are generated with this procedure (example for NumPy package):

import os.path, inspect

def sig(func):
    argspec = inspect.getargspec(func)
    return func.__name__ + inspect.formatargspec(*argspec)

pkg = 'numpy'
i = __import__(pkg, fromlist=[''])

subs_dir = os.path.dirname(i.__file__)
subs = [d for d in os.listdir(subs_dir) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(subs_dir, d + '/__init__.py'))]

for s in subs:
    p = '%s.%s' % (pkg, s)
    try:
        i = __import__(p, fromlist=[''])
        cont = dir(i)
        
        bloat = ['Notes', 'Examples', 'Raises', 'See Also', 'References', 'Methods']
        
        for c in cont:
            if c and c[0].isalpha() and c[-1].isalnum():
                doc_str = getattr(i, c).__doc__
                for b in bloat:
                    if doc_str: doc_str = doc_str.split(b)[0]
                if doc_str: doc_str = doc_str.replace('\n', '\\n').replace('    ','\\t')
                if inspect.isfunction(getattr(i, c)):
                    print '%s.%s\\n%s' % (p, sig(getattr(i, c)), doc_str)
    except: pass

then additionally regex-ed for issues, and compacted to following style:

• definitions are recognized if:
  • package is imported explicitly or in common namespace (import numpy or import numpy as np)
  • sub-packages are imported explicitly within main package or separately explicitly (import numpy.fft or from numpy import fft)
  • in either case implicit loading is not recommended although ".api" files can easily be changed to that preference
• lines are limited to max. 2000 characters for obvious reasons and function calls formatted to roughly 80 characters (in rare cases)

Some may find this script also interesting: scite-strip-wrapper

Changelog

0.1

• numpy.api reflect numpy 1.6.1
• scipy.api reflects scipy 0.10.0

0.2

• Merged one-line-description calltips and extended calltips in one file. Now simple calltips are displayed by default, and on user action extended are rolled
• Some noticed issues fixed