Siddhant wrote: > Hi! > I am having some doubts related to the readline module. I hope someone > could clear them. > 1. What exactly does the readline.get_line_buffer() function do? Does > it return whatever is the current input by the user? If yes, then can > I use it to check the current inputs of the user and base the next- > word completion against whatever the user has entered so far? There > wasn't much documentation on it, and a lot of googling couldn't help > much. :( > 2. Related to the completer function, what is meant by returning the > "state"th completion for "text"? Is the completer function called > everytime (for all possible values of "state") when I press the Tab > key? When/How is it called? > > Basically, I need to define a completer function, that should take > into consideration whatever the user has entered so far, and complete > the next word accordingly. The same way as a "cd /some/file" is > meaningless.
I don't know anything about readline (beyond it's existence of course) - but I do know & use the rlcompleter2 module. Go download it and look into it's source, it should give you an idea how to proceed. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
