Readline and unwanted filename completion

[Michael Hudson]

Simon Budig <simon at ping-pong.budig> writes:

> In article <uheowosxs.fsf at python.net>, Michael Hudson wrote:
> > Well, it can't go into 2.2.  If you mean 2.2.1, that's a little
> > greyer; there might be people out there who rely on the current
> > behaviour.
> 
> Hmm. Maybe it is possible to export this variable as an optional
> parameter to readline.set_completer with the default on the
> current behaviour?

But then that's a new feature...

> I think it is really annoying, that readline in the current
> python-module implementation insists on completing filenames when
> the completer returns no matches.

Sorry.  But I don't think you can claim it's a pure bug, and so it's
not 2.2.1 material.

Cheers,
M.

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