For most of the time, I'm already copying and pasting stuff from a text editor to use its completion instead. After more than an year having trouble with this, I think there's no way I can "get used" to it in any positive sense, but when I stick to the REPL for a long time, I'm aware that I press backspace all the time after TAB, sometimes unconsciously. Typing the last char manually hurts less than breaking the bracket matching expectation. I usually type both the open and close parentheses at once, then I move the cursor back one character to type its contents, so I never forget some unmatched parenthesis, but that strategy (which still works for other brackets and almost everywhere else) gets broken when some open parenthesis appear for some completions but not for others.
On Sat, 20 Apr 2019 at 12:57, Jonathan Fine <jfine2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Unix the behaviour follows from > https://docs.python.org/3/library/rlcompleter.html and also > https://docs.python.org/3/library/site.html#rlcompleter-config. > > I read in https://docs.python.org/3/library/site.html that site.py > attempts "to import a module named usercustomize, which can perform > arbitrary user-specific customizations". > Thanks. From those links I found that this behavior is a quite old stuff <https://bugs.python.org/issue449227>, though the completion wasn't active by default in Python 2.7. The documentation states that only Python 3.4 activated it by default. The solution I found from reading that code is this oneliner, which I'll copy and paste after loading the REPL (yes, it's monkeypatching a seemingly private method): __import__("rlcompleter").Completer._callable_postfix = lambda self, val, word: word Is there a default PYTHONSTARTUP file name in Python 3.7.3, or at least a single global configuration file for the REPL where I can put that oneliner or a file reference with that line? I strongly prefer not to mess around with ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc and scattered stuff like that, if possible. -- Danilo J. S. Bellini --------------- "*It is not our business to set up prohibitions, but to arrive at conventions.*" (R. Carnap)
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