[issue13946] readline completer could return an iterable

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[issue13946] readline completer could return an iterable

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Is this a good, bad or indifferent idea? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13946 ___

[issue13946] readline completer could return an iterable

Josh Rosenberg added the comment: I agree the design requiring it to pass the same information over and over is a bit odd (I've occasionally had cause to borrow some of ipython's niftyness for a plain Python terminal, and making custom completers work is one of the more awkward parts of the

[issue13946] readline completer could return an iterable

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[issue13946] readline completer could return an iterable

New submission from Nicolas nicolas-gau...@laposte.net: The function set by readline.set_completer must return one completion per call. This should be great if we can return an iterable, because with current implementation I have to write a wrapper: cache = None def completer(text, state):