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

[Flying Cougar Burnette]

But if we just change the readline import to rlcompleter and *don't*
do the parse_and_bind trick then your TABs will not be impacted,
correct?  Will we lose anything by making this switch?



Thomas Wouters writes:
| 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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