I am using Python 3.6 with PyCharm and it's kind of frustrating that there's no support for code completion for special cases of dictionary objects (with fixed key schema).
Say for example I create and try to access a simple dictionary object like this:
inventory = {'name': 'hammer', 'price': 2.3}inventory['']When I position my cursor inside the quotes '' and hit Ctrl + Space i get code completion and the IDE correctly suggests all the possible keys in the dictionary object. That's great!
But if i try to build it as a utility function that returns this same dict object, say with values that the user provide but with the same dict keys - then I don't get code completion anymore!
def get_inventory(name: str, price: float): return {'name': name, 'price': price}inventory = get_inventory('hammer', 2.3)inventory[''] # <- Pycharm can't offer any suggestions! Any workaround or solution for this? I searched already for similar solutions but I didn't find anything that works. I know I can just convert it into a class Inventory and access the properties that way but I don't want to do it for a couple of reasons:
- I need the object to be easily JSON convertable since i might pass it from / to JSON a lot and
dictobjects are the easiest for this purpose - storing it as a class wouldn't make much sense since i just need it as a data container anyway, with minimal properties stored within it
Any help or solution for how I can get my IDE to assist in code completion by recognizing the possible keys in such a dict object would be greatly appreciated!
