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Python Completion function for GNU readline
Unix readline module has tab completion mechanism. To get these features, we have to use rlcompleter module. It can be used in python’s interactive mode.
To use this module, we should import it using −
import rlcompleter
There is a class called Completer class −
Method Completer.complete(text, state)
This method is used to return the tab completion output. If there is a ‘.’ in the text, then it will try to get all related members of that command. When there is no dot ‘.’ it will just complete the text.
Example Code
import rlcompleter import sys my_completer = rlcompleter.Completer() phrase_list = ['co', 'sys.m', 'cal'] for phrase in phrase_list: print(phrase + ' (TAB): ', end='') try: for i in range(50): terms = my_completer.complete(phrase, i) if terms is None: break print(terms, end='\t') except: pass print()
Output
$ python3 example.py co (TAB): continue compile( complex( copyright( sys.m (TAB): sys.maxsize sys.maxunicode sys.meta_path sys.modules cal (TAB): callable(
Updated on: 30-Jul-2019
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