Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > I'm trying to autoexpand values as well as arguments using the builtin > cmd.Cmd class. > > I.E. > Consider the following command and arguments: > > > sayHello target=Georges > 'Hello Georges !' > > I can easily make 'tar' expand into 'target=' however I'd like to be > able to expand the value as well, choosing the target within a > predefined list. ie. > > sayHello target=<tab> > target=Georges target=Charles > > However I have the feeling that cmd.Cmd consider the '=' character in > the way it will not try to expand anything beyond. When double tabbing > after the '=' it will print the list of available arguemnt (i.e > ['target'] in the exemple above). > Ddd anyone successfuly expand values with cmd.Cmd ?
Some digging shows that your feeling is right: http://docs.python.org/library/readline.html#readline.get_completer_delims >>> import readline >>> readline.get_completer_delims() ' \t\n`~!@#$%^&*()-=+[{]}\\|;:\'",<>/?' After some initial problems with an extra space the following seems to work: import cmd import readline class SayHello(cmd.Cmd): def __init__(self): cmd.Cmd.__init__(self) delims = readline.get_completer_delims().replace("=", "") readline.set_completer_delims(delims) def do_sayHello(self, line): print 'Hello %s !' % line.split('=')[1] def complete_sayHello(self, text, line, begidx, endidx): target_with_value = ["target=" + v for v in "Charles Georges".split()] commands = ["target", "tarpit", "anotherCmd"] if text.startswith("target="): return [c for c in target_with_value if c.startswith(text)] completions = [c for c in commands if c.startswith(text)] if completions == ["target"]: # avoid blank after target return target_with_value return completions def do_EOF(self, line): return True if __name__ == '__main__': SayHello().cmdloop() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
