from comp.lang.python:

Thanks for the info. This choice of name is very confusing, to say the least. I used commandline completion with __buil TAB, and got __builtins__.

a simple way to avoid this problem is to change global_matches in rlcompleter.py so that it doesn't return this name. I suggest changing:

if word[:n] == text:

to

if word[:n] == text and work != "__builtins__":

Comments?

(should we do a series of double-blind tests first? ;-)

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