interactave, readline, and insert_text

[Christopher T King]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, garett wrote:

> I have also tried readline.redisplay() to the the contents of the line
> buffer to display in the edit line of the interpreter. Does anybody have
> any suggestions as to a technique to put text into the edit line of the
> interactive interpreter from a function so it can be further edited?

The closest thing I can find is to use readline.add_history().  This won't 
make your text pop up on the command line, but it will appear at the end 
of the history buffer, ready to use.

On an unrelated note, holy crap: I did not know of the existence of 
rlcompleter.  Let all to whom this module is unknown type the following at 
a Unix Python prompt:

 import readline
 import rlcompleter
 readline.parse_and_bind('tab: complete')

and rejoice! :) It just goes to show how many neat things Python does that 
you can go years without ever discovering them.