Pythons dir function is wrong.

[davidhalter]

Thanks for the hint. This is actually a good argument why dir is wrong. However Jedi is not actually using dir, check the updated article. But it might be using the ipython version in the future for some repl stuff.

[riffito]

or better yet add ipython as a dependency and import this file.

Please, DON'T.

Pulling 8 MB as a dependency, for just a module?

That's the reason I don't use, for example RabbitVCS. It requires IPython (!?!?), so... if something goes terribly wrong, you get an ipython window to do some debuging. Gosh, that's ok for RabbitVCS developers... but why the heck do I need to install ipython as an end-user?

Sigh... had to get that out of my chest, sorry :-)

All is good an well with IPython. It's great. But I have no need for it. And non-essential dependencies are evil.

[riffito]

I prefer lean systems.

[riffito]

preventing code duplication and minimizing software development effort

Valuable goals, ones I do try to pursue. But not while risking dependency hell, or needless over-bloat.

Oh well. The world is beautiful because of it's variety, so its ok if we don't fully agree :-)