How do I get the currently installed tab completion function?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:23 am, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
> wrote:
>> How do I get the currently installed completer?
>>
>> Solutions for any version of Python acceptable, but if they work all the
>> way back to 2.4 or older, even better.
> 
> Whether there's a way to avoid the whole try/finally I can't say, but
> I just went looking for the obvious "readline.get_completer()", and it
> does seem to be there. Is there something I'm missing here?

No, but there's obviously something *I'm* missing.

I don't know how I missed that :-(

It's especially embarrassing because it is available all the way back to
version 2.4, which is exactly what I need.


Sorry for the noise.


-- 
Steven