tab completion in cmd

Remco Gerlich scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl
Sun May 13 13:42:29 EDT 2001


Luca Manini <manini at eclipse-net.it> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> is it possible to have configurable tab-completion (à la tcsh) in the
> command line interface (cmd) of Python? 

Yes, if your Python has readline support compiled in.

Put this in your ~/.pythonrc.py:

import rlcompleter, readline
readline.parse_and_bind('tab: complete')

(I hope that's what you meant - I have no idea what "configurable"
tab-completion would be)
-- 
Remco Gerlich



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