how to determine an 'open' string?

[Michael Hudson]

holger krekel <pyth at devel.trillke.net> writes:

> Michael Hudson wrote:
> > holger krekel <pyth at devel.trillke.net> writes:
> > 
> > > hello, 
> > > 
> > > with my replacement rlcompleter module i'd like to
> > > have a *correct* check if a string is 'open'.
> > > examples:
> > 
> > You're going to have fun with strings containing spaces aren't you?
> 
> huh? not that i know of :-)

Because of the way readline works.  It calls the completer function
with the word stem, so if the buffer looks like

>>> "a very long string
                       ^
when you hit TAB the completer will get sent just "string" (I think).

Cheers,
M.

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