[IPython-user] Custom command completers implemented in SVN

[Stefan van der Walt]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 03:16:20PM +0200, Stefan van der Walt wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 03:05:57PM +0200, Ville M. Vainio wrote:
> > On 11/1/06, Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> > 
> > >I am running the latest ipython trunk on a standard Ubuntu Edgy
> > >installation, with no modifications to the default ipythonrc and a
> > >stock standard /etc/inputrc.
> > >
> > >Any idea where I start looking for the problem?
> >
> > This is probably a difference b/w pyreadline (windows) and treadline
> > (Linux). I gotta try it on Linux as well. ISTR that on linux, you
> > didn't actually need to press backspace and erase the quote but could
> > keep on typing letters as if the quote wasn't there.

Some more strange behaviour in the new completer -- on my machine, at
least, it won't run under emacs:

- emacs /tmp/blah.py
- C-c !
- At the ipython prompt, type 'import time'

and then

time.a<TAB><TAB>

which results in

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
exceptions.IndexError                      Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/stefan/lib/python2.4/site-packages/IPython/completer.py in complete(self=<IPython.completer.IPCompleter instance>, text='time.a', state=0)
    583                 text = os.path.expanduser(text)
    584             if state == 0:
--> 585                 custom_res = self.dispatch_custom_completer(text)
        custom_res = undefined
        self.dispatch_custom_completer = <bound method IPCompleter.dispatch_custom_completer of <IPython.completer.IPCompleter instance at 0xb7b1b76c>>
        text = 'time.a'
    586                 if custom_res is not None:
    587                     # did custom completers produce something?

/home/stefan/lib/python2.4/site-packages/IPython/completer.py in dispatch_custom_completer(self=<IPython.completer.IPCompleter instance>, text='N.a')
    536         event.line = line
    537         event.symbol = text
--> 538         cmd = line.split(None,1)[0]
        cmd = undefined
        line.split = <built-in method split of str object at 0xb7e11098>
        global None = undefined
    539         event.command = cmd
    540         for c in itertools.chain(

IndexError: list index out of range

Cheers
Stéfan