# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """Word completion for GNU readline 2.0. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: This version is a re-implementation of rlcompleter with selectable namespace. The problem with rlcompleter is that it's hardwired to work with __main__.__dict__, and in some cases one may have 'sandboxed' namespaces. So this class is a ripoff of rlcompleter, with the namespace to work in as an optional parameter. This class can be used just like rlcompleter, but the Completer class now has a constructor with the optional 'namespace' parameter. A patch has been submitted to Python@sourceforge for these changes to go in the standard Python distribution. The patch went in for Python 2.3. Once IPython drops support for Python 2.2, this file can be significantly reduced. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original rlcompleter documentation: This requires the latest extension to the readline module (the completes keywords, built-ins and globals in __main__; when completing NAME.NAME..., it evaluates (!) the expression up to the last dot and completes its attributes. It's very cool to do "import string" type "string.", hit the completion key (twice), and see the list of names defined by the string module! Tip: to use the tab key as the completion key, call readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete") Notes: - Exceptions raised by the completer function are *ignored* (and generally cause the completion to fail). This is a feature -- since readline sets the tty device in raw (or cbreak) mode, printing a traceback wouldn't work well without some complicated hoopla to save, reset and restore the tty state. - The evaluation of the NAME.NAME... form may cause arbitrary application defined code to be executed if an object with a __getattr__ hook is found. Since it is the responsibility of the application (or the user) to enable this feature, I consider this an acceptable risk. More complicated expressions (e.g. function calls or indexing operations) are *not* evaluated. - GNU readline is also used by the built-in functions input() and raw_input(), and thus these also benefit/suffer from the completer features. Clearly an interactive application can benefit by specifying its own completer function and using raw_input() for all its input. - When the original stdin is not a tty device, GNU readline is never used, and this module (and the readline module) are silently inactive. """ #***************************************************************************** # # Since this file is essentially a minimally modified copy of the rlcompleter # module which is part of the standard Python distribution, I assume that the # proper procedure is to maintain its copyright as belonging to the Python # Software Foundation: # # Copyright (C) 2001 Python Software Foundation, www.python.org # # Distributed under the terms of the Python Software Foundation license. # # Full text available at: # # http://www.python.org/2.1/license.html # #***************************************************************************** import readline import __builtin__ import __main__ __all__ = ["Completer"] class Completer: def __init__(self, namespace = None): """Create a new completer for the command line. Completer([namespace]) -> completer instance. If unspecified, the default namespace where completions are performed is __main__ (technically, __main__.__dict__). Namespaces should be given as dictionaries. Completer instances should be used as the completion mechanism of readline via the set_completer() call: readline.set_completer(Completer(my_namespace).complete) """ if namespace and type(namespace) != type({}): raise TypeError,'namespace must be a dictionary' # Don't bind to namespace quite yet, but flag whether the user wants a # specific namespace or to use __main__.__dict__. This will allow us # to bind to __main__.__dict__ at completion time, not now. if namespace is None: self.use_main_ns = 1 else: self.use_main_ns = 0 self.namespace = namespace def complete(self, text, state): """Return the next possible completion for 'text'. This is called successively with state == 0, 1, 2, ... until it returns None. The completion should begin with 'text'. """ if self.use_main_ns: self.namespace = __main__.__dict__ if state == 0: if "." in text: self.matches = self.attr_matches(text) else: self.matches = self.global_matches(text) try: return self.matches[state] except IndexError: return None def global_matches(self, text): """Compute matches when text is a simple name. Return a list of all keywords, built-in functions and names currently defined in self.namespace that match. """ import keyword matches = [] n = len(text) for list in [keyword.kwlist, __builtin__.__dict__.keys(), self.namespace.keys()]: for word in list: if word[:n] == text and word != "__builtins__": matches.append(word) return matches def attr_matches(self, text): """Compute matches when text contains a dot. Assuming the text is of the form NAME.NAME....[NAME], and is evaluatable in self.namespace, it will be evaluated and its attributes (as revealed by dir()) are used as possible completions. (For class instances, class members are are also considered.) WARNING: this can still invoke arbitrary C code, if an object with a __getattr__ hook is evaluated. """ import re # Another option, seems to work great. Catches things like ''. m = re.match(r"(\S+(\.\w+)*)\.(\w*)$", text) if not m: return [] expr, attr = m.group(1, 3) object = eval(expr, self.namespace) words = dir(object) if hasattr(object,'__class__'): words.append('__class__') words.extend(get_class_members(object.__class__)) n = len(attr) matches = [] for word in words: try: if word[:n] == attr and word != "__builtins__": matches.append("%s.%s" % (expr, word)) except: # some badly behaved objects pollute dir() with non-strings, # which cause the completion to fail. This way we skip the # bad entries and can still continue processing the others. pass return matches def get_class_members(klass): ret = dir(klass) if hasattr(klass,'__bases__'): for base in klass.__bases__: ret.extend(get_class_members(base)) return ret readline.set_completer(Completer().complete)