[IPython-user] feature request

[Ryan Krauss]

I don't know if this would be unreasonable to implement, but I have a
feature request.  I often have many files of very similar names but
with different extensions when I am working on a project.  I would
like IPython to filter out certain file extensions when I type run and
part of a file name and then do tab completion.  For example, in the
directory I am working in right now, if I type

In [4]: run sym<tab>
I get:

sym_example_dev_eqs               sym_example_dev_editted_2_out.out
sym_example_bode0.f               sym_w_spring_bode0.f
sym_analysis_example_eqs          sym_analysis_example.py~
sym_example_dev_editted_2_out.tex sym_example_dev_out.dvi
sym_example_dev_editted_2_out.dvi sym_example_dev_out.tex
sym_example_dev_editted_2.tex     sym_w_spring_dev.mac
sym_example_dev.tex               sym_w_spring_dev.tex
sym_example_dev.mac               sym_w_spring_dev_eqs
sym_analysis_example_out.tex      sym_w_spring_dev_out.dvi
sym_analysis_example_out.dvi      sym_w_spring_dev_out.tex
sym_analysis_example.tex          sym_analysis_example.py
sym_analysis_example.mac          sym_w_spring_dev_out.log
sym_example_dev_editted_2_out.log sym_w_spring_dev_out.aux
sym_example_dev_editted_2_out.aux sym_w_spring_dev_out.out

which is a big mess to sort through, but there is only 1 *.py file.  I
would never want to run anything except a *.py file (maybe there are
legitimate reasons to run other types of files, but I never have).
So, in the example above, I would like run sym<tab> to show what I
consider to be the only logical completion, sym_analysis_example.py.
I know I sort of do it to myself with my choice of file names and it
is a small annoyance, but I do it a lot.

Does that make sense?  Are there good reasons to ever run something
that isn't *.py?  Or can some extensions be filtered out of tab
completion?

Thanks,

Ryan