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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:23:55 +1000
Subject: Re: How do I get the currently installed tab completion function?
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@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?

Found it on 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, and 2.7, but I don't have anything older to test on.

ChrisA