TAB completion

[Stefan Heimann]

Hi!

I have a application with a builtin interactive shell. I use the
readline module for command completion and history browsing. The
following code enables filename completion:

try:
    import readline
except ImportError:
    self.printErr("Could not import readline.\nHistory browsing " \
                  "and tab completion will not be available.")
else:
    readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
    readline.set_completer_delims('\t\n`~!@#$%^&*()-=+[{]}\\|;:\'",<>?')

I also want to have command completion, but I don't want to write a
complete function for the filename completion (because it's already
there). I thought something like

def complete(text, state):
    if text seems like a command:
        myCmdCompletion(text, state)
    else:
        pythonsBuiltinCompletion(text, state)   

could do the job.

My problem is: How can I call the default completion function that
comes with the python distribution?

thanks for helping  
   Stefan