Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

Hippie completion

Hippie completion denotes code completion where the current visible scope and context of your code are taken into account. This is different from general code completion, which produces a suggestion list that includes things outside your current visible context. I emphasize the word visible here since what is suggested by hippie completion is dictated by what is currently being opened in PyCharm.

Let's see this feature in action. Close any file you have open in the PyCharm editor and open the http_status.py file, which can be found in the Chapter04/CodeCompletion folder of our repository. The file currently contains the following code:

import requestsSITES = [    'http://google.com',    'http://python.org', 'http://www.python.org/psf/', ...