Dear all, I'm trying to use Python's readline module but I'm having some trouble. In particular, autocompletion seems to "get stuck" on white spaces. Please take a look at this code snippet:
import readline def completer(text, state): text = text list = ['a dog', 'artsy'] if len(text) == 0: expressions = list else: expressions = [expression for expression in list if expression.startswith(text) try: return expressions[state] except IndexError: return None return # main code: readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete") readline.set_completer(completer) string = raw_input("type something: ") print "typed: " + string If I type "a" at the prompt and then press tab, both options are displayed. However, if I then type "[space]d" and then once again ask for auto-completion (I would expect getting "a dog" filled in for me) nothing happens. What am I doing wrong? Can I expect auto-completion to correctly handle this case? Thanks in advance for any help, Mack -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list