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bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:41:37 +0200 |
> From: Liu Hui <liuhui1610@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:06:38 +0800
> Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>,
> kobarity@gmail.com, 68559@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 12:37 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > The python-*-completion-at-point-* tests never worked for me, and I
> > always assumed it was something specific to MS-Windows. But maybe
> > not. There was no change in the tests that fail for me before and
> > after the recent changes related to Python.
>
> The Python shell completion relies on the readline module, which is
> not available for Python on MS-Windows. According to the instruction
> in python.el:
>
> ;; readline based shell (it's known to work with PyPy). If your
> ;; Python installation lacks readline (like CPython for Windows),
> ;; installing pyreadline (URL `https://ipython.org/pyreadline.html')
> ;; should suffice. To troubleshoot why you are not getting any
> ;; completions, you can try the following in your Python shell:
>
> ;; >>> import readline, rlcompleter
>
> ;; If you see an error, then you need to either install pyreadline or
> ;; setup custom code that avoids that dependency.
I don't know if I have CPython, but the above does show an error
message.
> It may be necessary to install pyreadline (for Python 2.7) or
> pyreadline3 (for Python 3).
I will see if I can do that, thanks.
Regardless, patches to the test suite to skip the tests which rely on
those modules, if they aren't installed, will be welcome.
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, (continued)
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- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/02/15
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/02/15
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, Mattias Engdegård, 2024/02/15
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2024/02/19
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, Liu Hui, 2024/02/19
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2024/02/20
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, Liu Hui, 2024/02/21
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2024/02/21
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, Liu Hui, 2024/02/15
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/02/16
bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, Liu Hui, 2024/02/15
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, kobarity, 2024/02/16
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, Mattias Engdegård, 2024/02/16
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, kobarity, 2024/02/16
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/02/16
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, Mattias Engdegård, 2024/02/16
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, kobarity, 2024/02/17
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, Mattias Engdegård, 2024/02/20
- bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion, kobarity, 2024/02/21