In article <431250b2-391e-4a1f-ba72-08afb7159...@l25g2000prn.googlegroups.com>, Nik Krumm <nkr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for your help. I installed python 2.7 on my Mac OS X 10.5.8 > machine: > > > nik$ python > Python 2.7 (r27:82508, Jul 3 2010, 21:12:11) > [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > and now, when I hit TAB or paste in a code snippet with tabs in them, > the interpreter tries to autocomplete a path, or inserts "./" if the > line is blank (just as readline would in the shell environment). It > does *not* try to autocomplete function (as readline would in python-- > importing readline does turn on this functionality). And it does *not* > insert a tab, as I would like it to!
See the rlcompleter module in the standard library: http://docs.python.org/library/rlcompleter.html In my .bashrc file, I have a line: [ -f ~/.pythonrc ] && export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonrc and in the .pythonrc file, I include: try: import readline except ImportError: print("Module readline not available.") else: import rlcompleter readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete") Note the print() form which works with either Python 2 or 3. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
