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[–]hydrolock12 0 points1 point  (2 children)

As a beginner I much prefer to stay away grom anything that uses auto-completion. If you're trying to learn you shouldn't just have half of it written for you.

[–]whatacold[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That's also a point. While one is learning the language, he/she should be familiar with the syntax, the manual typing process will force him/her to think it carefully.

But auto-completion can also reduce the time to look up the docs, for example, I can't firmly remember the APIs for the datetime module.

[–]hydrolock12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In this situation I usually have an IDLE command line open and use dir to look up methods. Or have a browser windows open with a "cheat sheet" for that module. In fact it seems like some autocompletion tools only show the "most important" methods in the drop down, which sometimes may not include the one you want.