On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:23 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> >> wrote: >>> How do I get the currently installed completer? >>> >>> Solutions for any version of Python acceptable, but if they work all the >>> way back to 2.4 or older, even better. >> >> Whether there's a way to avoid the whole try/finally I can't say, but >> I just went looking for the obvious "readline.get_completer()", and it >> does seem to be there. Is there something I'm missing here? > > No, but there's obviously something *I'm* missing. > > I don't know how I missed that :-( > > It's especially embarrassing because it is available all the way back to > version 2.4, which is exactly what I need. > > > Sorry for the noise.
That's still only the lesser option, of course. Better would be a way to say raw_input("prompt? ", completer=filename_completer) but that's not an option, so it'd have to be an explicit readline.something() call. I can't find any way to actually ask the readline module to read a line, though, but given that my experience with that module is effectively zip, someone else may well be able to offer a superior suggestion. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list