Autocompletion in the Python console

Hans tells us how to have autocompletion in the Python console:


import readline, rlcompleter
readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")

This is brilliant, but I wonder how I would ever have guessed this exact sequence of code. Isn’t it a bit obscur?

Anyhow. Hans also tells us how to have this run automatically every time the console is launched. I think it is very nice.

1 Comment

  1. Or you could just run ipython. It’s infinitely better than the standard python console

    Comment by didier — 1/6/2006 @ 14:39

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