Issue 5992: spurious space after opening parenthesis when auto-completing (original) (raw)

Issue5992

Created on 2009-05-10 23:56 by pitrou, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (3)
msg87558 - (view)	Author: Antoine Pitrou (pitrou) *	Date: 2009-05-10 23:56
Recent trunk/py3k revisions add a spurious space character after the opening parenthesis when doing completion at the interpreter prompt. For example if you type "he" and then press the Tab key, it will display "help( " instead of "help(".
msg87853 - (view)	Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) *	Date: 2009-05-16 03:26
What system are you using? On Windows 3.0.1, standard interpreter window, 'h' 'e' '' prints 'h' 'e' ' ' ' ' (making, with '>>> ', 8 chars. Which is to say, there is no tab completion. On IDLE, same brings up box and completes to 'help'
msg87865 - (view)	Author: Antoine Pitrou (pitrou) *	Date: 2009-05-16 08:48
This is with readline and rlcompleter enabled. However, it actually does this with the installed system Python too, so I fear some system-specific problem (perhaps a buggy readline library).