1 """Word completion for GNU readline 2.0.
3 This requires the latest extension to the readline module (the
4 completes keywords, built-ins and globals in __main__; when completing
5 NAME.NAME..., it evaluates (!) the expression up to the last dot and
6 completes its attributes.
8 It's very cool to do "import string" type "string.", hit the
9 completion key (twice), and see the list of names defined by the
12 Tip: to use the tab key as the completion key, call
14 readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
18 - Exceptions raised by the completer function are *ignored* (and
19 generally cause the completion to fail). This is a feature -- since
20 readline sets the tty device in raw (or cbreak) mode, printing a
21 traceback wouldn't work well without some complicated hoopla to save,
22 reset and restore the tty state.
24 - The evaluation of the NAME.NAME... form may cause arbitrary
25 application defined code to be executed if an object with a
26 __getattr__ hook is found. Since it is the responsibility of the
27 application (or the user) to enable this feature, I consider this an
28 acceptable risk. More complicated expressions (e.g. function calls or
29 indexing operations) are *not* evaluated.
31 - GNU readline is also used by the built-in functions input() and
32 raw_input(), and thus these also benefit/suffer from the completer
33 features. Clearly an interactive application can benefit by
34 specifying its own completer function and using raw_input() for all
37 - When the original stdin is not a tty device, GNU readline is never
38 used, and this module (and the readline module) are silently inactive.
48 def complete(self
, text
, state
):
49 """Return the next possible completion for 'text'.
51 This is called successively with state == 0, 1, 2, ... until it
52 returns None. The completion should begin with 'text'.
57 self
.matches
= self
.attr_matches(text
)
59 self
.matches
= self
.global_matches(text
)
61 return self
.matches
[state
]
65 def global_matches(self
, text
):
66 """Compute matches when text is a simple name.
68 Return a list of all keywords, built-in functions and names
69 currently defines in __main__ that match.
75 for list in [keyword
.kwlist
,
76 __builtin__
.__dict
__.keys(),
77 __main__
.__dict
__.keys()]:
79 if word
[:n
] == text
and word
!= "__builtins__":
83 def attr_matches(self
, text
):
84 """Compute matches when text contains a dot.
86 Assuming the text is of the form NAME.NAME....[NAME], and is
87 evaluatable in the globals of __main__, it will be evaluated
88 and its attributes (as revealed by dir()) are used as possible
89 completions. (For class instances, class members are are also
92 WARNING: this can still invoke arbitrary C code, if an object
93 with a __getattr__ hook is evaluated.
97 m
= re
.match(r
"(\w+(\.\w+)*)\.(\w*)", text
)
100 expr
, attr
= m
.group(1, 3)
101 object = eval(expr
, __main__
.__dict
__)
103 if hasattr(object,'__class__'):
104 words
.append('__class__')
105 words
= words
+ get_class_members(object.__class
__)
109 if word
[:n
] == attr
and word
!= "__builtins__":
110 matches
.append("%s.%s" % (expr
, word
))
113 def get_class_members(klass
):
115 if hasattr(klass
,'__bases__'):
116 for base
in klass
.__bases
__:
117 ret
= ret
+ get_class_members(base
)
120 readline
.set_completer(Completer().complete
)