On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Does anyone use the tab-completion recipe in the docs?
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/rlcompleter.html#module-rlcompleter
>
> suggests using this to enable tab-completion:
>
> try:
> import readline
> except ImportError:
> print "Module readline not available."
> else:
> import rlcompleter
> readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
>
> which is all very nice, but it makes it rather difficult to indent code
> blocks:
>
>>>> def func(x):
> ...
> Display all 174 possibilities? (y or n)
>
>
> I like tab-completion, but I'd rather not be reduced to typing spaces for
> indents in the interpreter. What do other people do?
Personally, I just use single spaces for indentation when typing in
the interpreter. But how would something like this work for you?
import readline
import rlcompleter
class TabCompleter(rlcompleter.Completer):
def complete(self, text, state):
if text == '' or text.endswith('\t'):
if state == 0:
return text + '\t'
else:
return None
return rlcompleter.Completer.complete(self, text, state)
readline.set_completer(TabCompleter().complete)
-Miles
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