Question

I have noticed a particular feature in Visual Studio and I am wondering if this feature is also available in Eclipse + PyDev.

In Visual Studio, if one were to type a function call and that particular function does not already exist, VS would show a code error and give an option to generate a new empty function matching the signature provided in the function call.

In other words, same I am working in a particular Python function or class and I realize I need a new function to process some string. In my current function I type processString(myString), which returns an error because the processString function does not currently exist. Is there some way to then click on the processString function call and create a new block in my module:

def processString(myString):
    pass

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

Thank you @Eric Wilson.

If I type the function call processString(myString) then hit ‘CTRL+1’ the code completion/template window appears offering me the option to create a new class, method, assign to a field, or assign to a variable.

This was exactly what I was looking for.