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Spyder does not autocomplete local variables

I'm having a problem getting my local variables autocompleted. This is a very basic functionality which I'm sure it should support. When I'm starting to write a variable name which was already declared, and press TAB (this is the default shortcut), I get nothing. Is this a bug?

Solution

  • (Spyder dev here) Spyder does complete local variables but to have this functionality you need to install a library called rope. You can do it by running this command in a terminal

    pip install rope

    If you use Python 3 this command needs to be

    pip install rope_py3k

    Besides, code completion on the Editor works now with both Ctrl+Space and with Tab.

    Edit: Updated answer for the Spyder version 2.3.0.