[Python-Dev] Hi, and a question about filename completion via readline in Python 2.3

[Fernando Perez]

Michael Hudson wrote:
> Fernando Perez <fperez at colorado.edu> writes:

>>work.  I personally (and many others) use ipython as my main python
>>shell, and I fell it provides a superior working environment to
>>anything else I've seen out there (especially if you need to combine
>>python work with manipulating underlying files).
> 
> 
> Bet pyrepl still canes it for multi-line work :-)

It does for on-site multi-line work (though ipython now has an @edit command 
which is a reasonable substitute).  But ipython has a ton more features that 
make it a fuller environment.  As I said before (long ago), it would be cool 
if we could integrate the two a bit more.  Care to give it a go (off-list)?

>>So ultimately my concerns are:
>>
>>- is there currently a way to re-enable readline filename completion,
>>  as suggested in that thread?
> 
> 
> Yes.  Do it yourself, in your completer function.  Is it really that
> hard?  I would have thought os.path + glob would make it a five line
> or so excercise.

Oh well, I'll do it myself then.  I'm a bit bummed to see functionality 
disappear in a release, but I can live with it.  I have more and more 2.3 
users who aren't too happy about this change, so I'll just go ahead and 
implement it.

Cheers,

f.