tab completion in cmd

[William Park]

On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:32:04PM +0100, Michael Hudson wrote:
> Luca Manini <manini at eclipse-net.it> writes:
> 
> > is it possible to have configurable tab-completion (à la tcsh) in
> > the command line interface (cmd) of Python?
> 
> "import rlcompleter" shoud do the trick.

>From the docs, putting the following in a file named by PYTHONSTARTUP
environment variable will enable TAB-completion for interactive session:
    import rlcompleter
    rlcompleter.readline.parse_and_bind('tab: complete')

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