On 22 March 2001, Flying Cougar Burnette said:
> Can anyone think of a good reason why we don't import rlcompleter
> instead of readline by default? I can give you a good reason why it
> *should*, but I'd rather not bore anyone with the details if I don't
> have to.
Haven't tried your patch, but when you "import rlcompleter" manually in
an interactive session, that's not enough. You also have to call
readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
*Then* <tab> does the right thing (ie. completion in the interpreter's
global namespace). I like it, but I'll bet Guido won't because you can
always do this:
$ cat > ~/.pythonrc
import readline, rlcompleter
readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
and put "export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonrc" in your ~/.profile (or
whatever) to achieve the same effect.
But I think having this convenience built-in for free would be a very
nice thing. I used Python for over a year before I found out about
PYTHONSTARTUP, and it was another year after that that I learnedabout
readline.parse_and_bind(). Why not save future newbies the bother?
Greg
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