readline and TAB-completion?

From	Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	readline and TAB-completion?
Date	2015-11-25 07:02 +0000
Organization	University of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID	<n33mde$bgg$1@news2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> (permalink)

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I need an input function with GNU readline support. So far I have:

    import readline
    readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")

    file = raw_input('File to send: ')


Cursor keys are working, but TAB-completion works only in the current
directory. Example:


File to send: [TAB][TAB]
argv.py              error.py             md5b64.py            x.py
Python_Cookbook.pdf  bookmarks            fexit.py             murksigkeiten
_.py                 compile.py           https.py             wcp

File to send: /tmp/[TAB][TAB]
argv.py              error.py             md5b64.py            x.py
Python_Cookbook.pdf  bookmarks            fexit.py             murksigkeiten
_.py                 compile.py           https.py             wcp


Is there a way to make TAB-completion work for other directories, too?

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readline and TAB-completion? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-25 07:02 +0000
  Re: readline and TAB-completion? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-11-25 10:44 +0100
    Re: readline and TAB-completion? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-25 12:44 +0000

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