[Python-Dev] auto-import rlcompleter instead of readline?

[Thomas Wouters]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 10:04:07AM -0500, Greg Ward wrote:

> But I think having this convenience built-in for free would be a very
> nice thing.  I used Python for over a year before I found out about
> PYTHONSTARTUP, and it was another year after that that I learnedabout
> readline.parse_and_bind().  Why not save future newbies the bother?

And break all those poor users who use tab in interactive mode (like *me*)
to mean tab, not 'complete me please' ? No, please don't do that :)

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