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For an update 2.1, I would very much like the ability to assign (unused) keyboard shortcuts (e.g. command+Q on an external keyboard) to script shortcuts (under the wrench, as one of the options for edit shortcut, similar to icon).
That way, you could make the editor fit your own taste :-)

You can use \1 to refer to matched text grouped by () in the regex. So:

import re
my_text = 'Word word'
src_str  = re.compile('(word)', re.IGNORECASE) 
my_text = src_str.sub(r'\1xxx', my_text)
print(my_text)

dict is a built-in type, not a module that needs importing
What are you trying to accomplish, @Sway?

@jaredbidlow, Pythonista 2.0 provides appex, so you don't need Workflow and the clipboard anymore to Open in Pythonista. See e.g. https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/2494/appex-getfromurl-to-share-from-other-apps-to-pythonista for an alternative

Today 18 Jan 2023, a beta of a new Pythonista was made available to testers. This contains a more recent numpy ☺ and pandas ☺☺☺.

When the beta is promoted to the App Store, all users will benefit from this (and other evolutions like Python 3.10 instead of 3.6).

Great news! Thanks @omz!

And seems already submitted 7 Dec, hence 48 days remaining of 3-months TestFlight period. Whatever, it’s downloading and I look forward to more modern Python features

I'd say, list of dict with ('class', 'View') as one of its items and 'frame' as another key would be pretty telling. But it wouldn't provide 100% absolute dead-sure unmistakable certainty, I'm afraid, so don't use this if trying to control a nuclear reactor or pacemaker

Both in Pythonista2 and Pythonista3 (latest betas) a long press to run (i.e. with args in 2; either with args or doctest in 3) does not clear the console if clear output before running is set in settings. I don't know whether this is by design, but (especially with verbose option; great option BTW) the doctest output tends to get longish, so this behaviour may lead to confusing output

@dgelessus , I agree objc_util needs an __all__
However, to exclude the imported modules, you don't necessarily need to enumerate; instead you can use inspect:

{name for name in dir(objc_util)
      if not name.startswith("_") and
         not inspect.ismodule(getattr(objc_util, name))
}

Interesting!
Off topic:
As Nichtmuttersprachler who learned German in school way before the 1998 Rechtschreibereform, I was totally unaware of this German discussion. Do people actually propose writing "zwai"?

iPad Air 2: (1024.00, 768.00)

By the way, this approach (below) also permits a second help tab open (in a browser), next to the regular one (help function), which may be helpful to toggle back and forth between two topics

'''Open 2nd tab on help in browser (next to regular help function), proof of concept needs further work'''

import os, webbrowser

def dirname(path, n=1):
    return path if n<=0 else dirname(os.path.dirname(path), n-1)
def openhelp():
    path = os.__file__
    txtpath = os.path.join(dirname(path, 4), 'Documentation', 'index.html')
    webbrowser.open('file://'+txtpath)

openhelp()

+1 your request, @Webmaster4o

Meanwhile, this also isn't what you look for, and far from ideal, but you could consider opening the source to the documentation in the editor and search then, like:

'''Open documentation source text file in editor, proof of concept needs further work'''
#TODO: doesn't work for builtins (so not e.g. sys)
#TODO: only works for standard Python modules (pylib, so not e.g. scene or NUMPY)
#TODO: doesn't work for submodules (e.g. os.path)
#TODO: opens already-open text files in another tab
#TODO: error handling

import os, editor

def dirname(path, n=1):
    return path if n<=0 else dirname(os.path.dirname(path), n-1)
def opendoctxt(module):
    path = module.__file__
    basename = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(path))[0] + '.txt'
    txtpath = os.path.join(dirname(path, 4), 'Documentation','_sources', 'library', basename)
    editor.open_file(txtpath, True)

opendoctxt(os)

Hi @huub.
import searches for the module in all directories mentioned in sys.path. Does that include the directory where you put your module? You need to import sys to inspect the sys.path value.

Looks quite cool, @Webmaster4o!

@ShunS, backslash \ is available by swipe-up from slash / on the extended keyboard

Version dates differ:

import sys
print(sys.version)

yields 2.7.5 in each version of 1.5, 1.6 (beta), and 2.0, but with different dates (resp. 13 Jun 2014, 29 Nov 2015, and 19 Dec 2015)

In the AppStore :-)

As @ccc points out, Point, Rect and Vector2 are identical. The same applies to Size, but the other common names, Button and Touch, are different.

import inspect, scene, ui
common = set(dict(inspect.getmembers(scene, inspect.isclass)))
common &= set(dict(inspect.getmembers(ui, inspect.isclass)))
common = sorted(list(common))
for cls in common:
    print 'class', cls, 'in scene and ui are', 'identical' if getattr(scene, cls) is getattr(ui, cls) else 'different'

results in

class Button in scene and ui are different
class Point in scene and ui are identical
class Rect in scene and ui are identical
class Size in scene and ui are identical
class Touch in scene and ui are different
class Vector2 in scene and ui are identical