rlcompleter
â Completion function for GNU readline¶
Source code: Lib/rlcompleter.py
The rlcompleter
module defines a completion function suitable to be passed to set_completer()
in the readline
module.
When this module is imported on a Unix platform with the readline
module available, an instance of the Completer
class is automatically created and its complete()
method is set as the readline completer. The method provides completion of valid Python identifiers and keywords.
Example:
>>> import rlcompleter >>> import readline >>> readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete") >>> readline. <TAB PRESSED> readline.__doc__ readline.get_line_buffer( readline.read_init_file( readline.__file__ readline.insert_text( readline.set_completer( readline.__name__ readline.parse_and_bind( >>> readline.
The rlcompleter
module is designed for use with Pythonâs interactive mode. Unless Python is run with the -S
option, the module is automatically imported and configured (see Readline configuration).
On platforms without readline
, the Completer
class defined by this module can still be used for custom purposes.
Completer objects have the following method:
Return the next possible completion for text.
When called by the readline
module, this method is called successively with state == 0, 1, 2, ...
until the method returns None
.
If called for text that doesnât include a period character ('.'
), it will complete from names currently defined in __main__
, builtins
and keywords (as defined by the keyword
module).
If called for a dotted name, it will try to evaluate anything without obvious side-effects (functions will not be evaluated, but it can generate calls to __getattr__()
) up to the last part, and find matches for the rest via the dir()
function. Any exception raised during the evaluation of the expression is caught, silenced and None
is returned.
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