Bug 518653

Summary: Tab auto-completion in interactive python shell
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Shreyank Gupta <shreyankg>
Component: pythonAssignee: James Antill <james.antill>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 11CC: ivazqueznet, james.antill, jonathansteffan, katzj, shreyankg
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Description Shreyank Gupta 2009-08-21 14:01:52 UTC 
Description of problem:
Tab key in python shell is not mapped to auto-complete in fedora.

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How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type python in shell to start the python shell.
2. Press tab.

  
Actual results:
The cursor moves a 4 (or 2 or 8) spaces.


Expected results:
Display all xyz possibilities? (y or n)



Additional info:
It exists by default in Mandriva and Suse.
See my blog post and comments for more information:
http://allsortsofshrink.blogspot.com/2009/08/tab-auto-completion-in-python-shell.html
Comment 1 James Antill 2009-08-21 17:52:27 UTC 
use ipython.