[issue17238] IDLE: Add import statement completion

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: +1 for import completion. Above, I misspelled 'rlcompleter' as 'rlcomplete'. When I just tried to import it as part of responding to #41230, the wrong name did not work. I wish I could have stopped with 'import rl'. To add a note to #37765, I tried

[issue17238] IDLE: Add import statement completion

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[issue17238] IDLE: Add import statement completion

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I opened #40892 for using rlcomplete suffixes. I should look as #25419 for patch and messages for import ideas. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue17238] IDLE: Add import statement completion

Martin Panter added the comment: The readline completion code does not strictly depend on on Readline, although currently it is modelled after its quirky API. But we can change that by adding a more general API. In , I suggested an API

[issue17238] IDLE: Add import statement completion

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I change 'enhance' to 'add' because there is no 'import completion' now. Ramchandra, when replying by email, delete the quoted email. But do submit a patch even is less than perfect. The idea of autoimporting a name to complete an attribute is separate from