rlcompleter not calling __getattr__ on [ ]

[holger krekel]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:39:24AM -0600, Fernando P?rez wrote:
> Jaco Schieke wrote:
> 
> > Looks like the regexp in rlcompleter that searches the string does not
> > work correctly.  After changing the line
> > 
> >> m = re.match(r"(\w+(\.\w+)*)\.(\w*)", text)
> > 
> > to
> > 
> >> m = re.match(r"([\w\[\]]+(\.[\w\[\]]+)*)\.(\w*)", text)

or maybe even r"(\S+(\.\w+)*)\.(\w*)" ? This would principally
allow to add 

"".<tab>

to work as expected. Of course you need to remove " and ' 
from the delimiter list. 

But then again, i wonder if the rlcompleter should not simply
see the *whole* string and do the string-split according to delimiters
itself? This might be more flexible for 'general purpose' completion. 
I consider the delimiters to be a rlcompleter property and
not a readline property.

	holger