[Idle-dev] IDLE plans

Markus Gritsch gritsch@iue.tuwien.ac.at
Wed, 01 Mar 2000 16:58:59 +0100


Gerrit Holl wrote:

> > Even more useful would be a feature similar to the completion-feature
> > in forte4java.
>
> In fact, this already exists somewhere:
>
> >>> import rlcompleter
> >>> import readline
> >>> readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")

I know, but this only works in an interactive python shell.  What I meant was that
it would be nice to have this feature in an editor-like environment like IDLE is.

Kind regards,
Markus