I have installed pyreadline, and get nice tab completion in the normal interactive interpreter:
<snip> Python 2.4.4 (#71, Oct 18 2006, 08:34:43) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import rlcompleter >>> import readline >>> readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete") >>> <I hit the TAB key, and get this:> and oct UserWarning ArithmeticError assert SystemExit filter str break StandardError range property [...] >>> import sys >>> sys. <I hit the TAB key again, and get this:> sys.__displayhook__ sys.call_tracing sys.getfilesystemencoding sys.ps1 sys.__doc__ sys.callstats sys.getrecursionlimit sys.ps2 [...] >>> sys. </snip> However, in 'code.interact()', the behaviour is different. Hitting TAB at the top level works as before, but hitting TAB after entering 'sys.' for example doesn't show any completions: <snip> Python 2.4.4 (#71, Oct 18 2006, 08:34:43) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import rlcompleter >>> import readline >>> readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete") >>> import code >>> code.interact() Python 2.4.4 (#71, Oct 18 2006, 08:34:43) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. (InteractiveConsole) >>> <I hit the TAB key, and get this:> and oct UserWarning ArithmeticError assert SystemExit filter str break StandardError range property [...] >>> import sys >>> sys. <I hit the TAB key, and get nothing> </snip> How can I get the same tab-completion? Thanks, Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list